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Wealth creation and macroeconomics: The parasite problem | The Economist
IT IS a running joke among my friends that none of us does anything useful for society. Lawyers, bankers, chartered surveyors; all of them exist to advise other people who have created wealth. One of my friends was an engineer (he actually designed a railway bridge) but joined the useless brigade by becoming a consultant. Your blogger is the lowest of the low; a parasite on parasites. Financial journalists exist to comment on the habits of other people who simply shuffle pieces of paper (or rather rearrange digits on a computer screen) for a living.
Book: Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur Along with co-author Yves Pigneur and 470 co-creators, we wrote a truly innovative bestseller on business model design and innovation. In this unique project we based the book itself on an innovative business model. In June 2009 we organized an event to share knowledge and experience around the topic of business model innovation. The event accompanied the upcoming Business Model Generation book.
Alex Osterwalder on Business Model Innovation
Resources | Community Shares
This project is being delivered by Locality in partnership with Co-operatives UK and follows on from the publication comissioned by the DTA: "Community Share and Bond Issues: The Sharpest Tool In The Box", author Chris Hill, Camberwell Project (2007) > Download Here . and Co-operatives UK's publication " Community Investment: Using Industrial and Provident Society Legislation", by Jim Brown, Baker Brown Associates (2008) > Download Here . NEW! The Practitioners' Guide to Community Shares was launched at the Community Shares event on 7th July 2011. For your copy of this latest and most comprehensive guide on how to undertake a share issue and meet best practice guidelines Download here This publication provides guidance on two topics: the legal and governance formats for organisations offering community shares; and community shares offer documents, inviting the public to invest in community shares.
Cooperative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op ) is an autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual social, economic, and cultural benefit. [ 1 ] Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use its services (a consumer cooperative) and/or by the people who work there (a worker cooperative). [ edit ] Origins Cooperation dates back as far as human beings have been organizing for mutual benefit. Tribes were organized as cooperative structures, allocating jobs and resources among each other, only trading with the external communities. In alpine environments, trade could only be maintained in organized cooperatives to achieve a useful condition of artificial roads such as Viamala in 1473. [ 2 ] Pre-industrial Europe is home to the first cooperatives from an industrial context. [ citation needed ]
The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Euskadi . Founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956, its origin is linked to the activity of a modest technical college and a small workshop producing paraffin heaters . Currently it is the seventh largest Spanish company in terms of asset turnover and the leading business group in the Basque Country .
