Community-Owned Enterprise and Civic Participation

week #: 1 · Topics: Tensions between Capitalism and Democracy · readings: Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. “Social Capital and Community Governance.” The Economic Journal 112 (2002).

Dryzek, John S. “Legitimacy and Economy in Deliberative Democracy.” Political Theory 29, no. 5 (2001): 651-669.

Bachrach, Peter, and Aryeh Botwinick. Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992.

Harris, Cheryl I. “Whiteness As Property.” Harvard Law Review 106, no. 8 (1993).

Oliver, Melvin L., and Thomas M. Shapiro. “Wealth and Racial Stratification.” In America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences . Edited by N. J. Smelser, W. J. Wilson, and F. Mitchell. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. ISBN: 0309068401.

week #: 2 · Topics: Tensions between Capitalism and Environmental Sustainability · readings: Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism . Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. ISBN: 0316353167. (Read chapters 1, 5, 13, and 14 at a minimum, read other chapters relevant to your participation interest (transportation, waste removal, etc.))

week #: 3 · Topics: Combining Political and Economic Development · readings: Cummings, Scott L. “Community Economic Development as Progressive Politics: Toward a Grassroots Movement for Economic Justice.” Stanford Law Review 54 (2002): 399-493.

Feldman, Jonathan Michael, and Jessica Gordan Nembhard. “Towards a New Community Development Paradigm: The Political and Economic Agenda.” Planners Network 149 (2001).

World Bank. Building Institutions for Markets . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0195216067.

Lindblom, Charles. The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. Chapters 17, 18, and 19. ISBN: 0300087527.

International Joint Project on Co-operative Democracy. Making Membership Meaningful: Participatory Democracy in Cooperatives . Saskatoon, Canada: Centre for the Study of Cooperatives, University of Saskatchewan, 1995. Chapters 1, 5, and 7. ISBN: 0888803346.

week #: 4 · Topics: Cooperative Models · readings: Fairbairn, Brett, June Bold, Murray Fulton, Lous Hammond Ketilson, and Daniel Ish. Co-operatives and Community Development . Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Centre for the Study of Cooperatives, University of Saskatchewan, 1991. ISBN: 0888802498.

MacLeod, Greg. From Mondragon to America . Sydney, Nova Scotia: University College of Cape Breton Press, 1997. ISBN: 0920336531.

Cohen-Mitchell, Tim. “Community Currencies at a Crossroads.” New Village Journal 2 (2000): 42-49.

Presentation by Will Bradshaw on Market Creek Carr, James H. “Community Capital and Markets: A New Paradigm for Community Reinvestment.” The Neighbor Works Journal (1999).

Nadeau, E. G., and David J. Thompson. “Cooperative Housing Brings the Dream Home,” and “Senior Co-op Housing.” Chapters 5, and 6 in Cooperation Works! How people are using cooperative action to rebuild communities and revitalize the economy . Rochester, MN: Lone Oak Press, LTD, 1996. ISBN: 1883477131.

Presentations by Lynn Benander Taub, Richard P. Community Capitalism: The South Shore Bank’s Strategy for Neighborhood Revitalization . Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1988. Chapters 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, and 9. ISBN: 0875841937.

Nadeau, and Thompson. “Community Development Credit Unions.” Chapter 8 in Cooperation Works! How people are using cooperative action to rebuild communities and revitalize the economy . Rochester, MN: Lone Oak Press, LTD, 1996. ISBN: 1883477131.

Hansmann, Henry. The Ownership of Enterprise . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Chapters 13, and 14. ISBN: 0674649702.

Yago, Glenn, Betsy Zeidman, and Bill Schmidt. Creating Capital, Jobs and Wealth in Emerging Domestic Markets . New York, NY: Milken Institute, 2003. (Out of print.)

week #: 7 · Topics: Union Pension Investing · readings: Fung, Archon, Tessa Hebb, and Joel Rogers, eds. Working Capital: The Power of Labor’s Pensions . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 6. ISBN: 0801439019.

Quarter, Jack, Isla Carmichael, Jorge Sousa, and Susan Elgie. “Social Investment by Union-Based Pension Funds and Labour Sponsored Pension Funds in Canada.” RUIR 56, no. 1 (2001).

Nell, Stephen C., and Kevin M. Walsh. “Participant Directed TAFT-HARTLEY plans: Ten Steps for Getting Started.” Employee Benefits Journal 23, no. 3 (1998).

Blackburn, Robin. Banking on Death or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions . New York, NY: Verso. ISBN: 1859847951.

Presentations by Lynn Benander Thompson, J. Phillip, and Ross Gittell. “Privatization and Community: Linking Interests in Poor Communities.” (Submitted for journal review, December, 1996.)

Weisbrod, Burton, ed. To Profit or Not to Profit . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0521631807. (Readings to be assigned.)

week #: 9 · Topics: Organizing Remittances · readings: Inter-American Foundation. Approaches to Increasing the Productive Value of Remittances . Washington, DC, 2001.