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Christopher Gunn - Third-Sector Development - 9780801488818 - V9780801488818
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Third-Sector Development

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Description for Third-Sector Development Paperback. Series: ILR Press Book. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 tables, charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KC; KJVW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.

Nonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue of hope and action for communities that have come up short in the normal operation of the market economy. These organizations comprise the third sector, which accounts for approximately 10 percent of U.S. economic activity. As part of the fastest growing sector in the economy, these dynamic organizations play an increasing role in strengthening local economies. In the United States, they help to compensate for a state that is, in Gunn's view, relatively disengaged from meeting basic human needs.

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After explaining why local development is a problem in such a wealthy and resource-rich country as the United States, Christopher Gunn profiles more than two dozen organizations ranging from child-care cooperatives to retirement communities, from co-housing "villages" to financial institutions. He also investigates public-policy changes that could strengthen this alternative sector's contribution to economic development.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
ILR Press Book
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488818
SKU
V9780801488818
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Christopher Gunn
Christopher Gunn is Professor of Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of Workers'Self-Management in the United States, coauthor of Reclaiming Capital, both from Cornell, and coeditor of Alternatives to Economic Orthodoxy.

Reviews for Third-Sector Development
"Christopher Gunn illuminates one of the hidden recesses of our nation's vast nonprofit subcontinent and uncovers a mother lode of innovative organizations effectively mobilizing nonmarket impulses to offset some of the structural shortcomings of our market system. The result is a fascinating account of how third-sector organizations bring hope and progress to those left behind in the march of globalization." ... Read more

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