By Jake Karlyle
PROUT Research Institute, Australia
Paper given at the Hobart conference 'Community, Economy and the Environment: Exploring Tasmania’s Future', 15 October 2005
Introduction
The topic for discussion is: “A Cooperative Economy – What Might It Look Like?” Over the last 150 years or so, two socio-economic systems have dominated the world: capitalism and communism. Capitalism is synonymous with individual …