Co-operatives and the wealth of nations

The UK Society for Co-operative Studies saw this year's Co-operative Fortnight as an opportunity to do some deep thinking about the position of the co-operative movement in the world today.

With the support of Co-operatives UK, a lecture by John Restakis, the Executive Director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association, was arranged. John spoke about his new book, Humanizing the Economy, Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, in the run up to the 2011 Co-operative Congress.

John Restakis took his lecture, Co-operation and the Wealth of Nations, to three nations in three days taking in Cardiff, across to London, up to Edinburgh, then back down to Sheffield, ending up at the Co-operative Congress in Birmingham.

Contained here is John Restakis' full lecture - the inaugural Co-operatives Fortnight lecture.