Curriculum The Economics of Cooperatives
The Economics of Cooperatives
How businesses owned by their members work - cooperative principles, types of co-ops, India's cooperative movement, cooperative banks and the PMC crisis, village credit societies, sugar co-ops, housing societies, the Ministry of Cooperation, Mondragon, why co-ops succeed or fail and platform co-ops.
- What Is a Cooperative? How cooperatives differ from ordinary companies, where the idea came from, and the principles that guide member-owned businesses. 📄 Read-aloud
- Types of Cooperatives The main kinds of cooperatives - producer, consumer, credit, housing and worker co-ops - and what economic problem each solves. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Cooperative Movement How cooperatives in India began as a response to rural debt in 1904 and grew into one of the world's largest cooperative sectors. 📄 Read-aloud
- Cooperative Banks and the PMC Crisis How urban cooperative banks serve local communities, why weak supervision led to crises like PMC Bank in 2019, and how regulation changed. 📄 Read-aloud
- Primary Agricultural Credit Societies How village-level credit cooperatives provide short-term loans to farmers, why many struggled, and the push to computerise and diversify them. 📄 Read-aloud
- Maharashtra's Sugar Cooperatives How farmer-owned sugar mills transformed rural Maharashtra, why they became centres of political power, and the problems they faced. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Cooperatives: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on cooperatives, their types, India's movement, cooperative banks and PACS. 5 questions
- Cooperative Housing Societies How millions of urban Indians live in cooperative housing societies, how they are governed and financed, and the economics of redevelopment. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Ministry of Cooperation and Recent Reforms Why India created a Ministry of Cooperation in 2021, the reforms to multi-state cooperatives, and debates about central involvement in a state subject. 📄 Read-aloud
- Mondragon: The World's Largest Worker Cooperative Group How a network of worker-owned businesses in Spain's Basque Country grew into a major industrial group, and what it shows about worker ownership. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Cooperatives Succeed or Fail The economic strengths and weaknesses of cooperatives, including raising capital, free riders, governance and political capture. 📄 Read-aloud
- New Cooperatives: Platforms and Beyond How cooperative ideas are being applied to digital platforms, gig work, renewable energy and more, as alternatives to investor-owned businesses. 📄 Read-aloud
- Cooperatives Today and Tomorrow The role of cooperatives in the modern economy, lessons from successes and failures, and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud