Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/MY6H6g Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era By: Carl Ratner Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9781461458241, 1461458242 eText ISBN: 9781461458258, 1461458250 Copyright year: 2013 Format: EPUB Available from $ 129.00 USD SKU 9781461458258 Globalization pressures have made cooperation on a global scale both necessary and possible. But cooperation is not easy in a world dominated by individual, cultural, and national selfish interests. The opposition to cooperation means that cooperation is not natural, but must be instituted through an intellectual and social struggle against countervailing forces. This book discusses issues that are necessary to describe the nature of cooperation and how it can be promoted as a social and ethical ideal amidst a sea of competing interests. Dr. Ratner uses the framework of cooperativism, that is the system of social institutions, social philosophy, cultural psychology and politics that promotes cooperation, as a starting point. Elements of cooperativism are derived from a rigorous analysis of various sources, including the needs of tendencies of human culture and human psychology.
