Description:
In Understanding the Social Economy, Quarter, Mook, and Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded upon a social mission - social enterprises, nonprofits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development associations - under the rubric of the 'social economy.'
Brief description:
Jack Quarter was a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Review Quotes: 'Understanding Social Economy provides a comprehensive guide to understanding this robust and emerging sector. Practitioners will be pleased to see the social economy portrayed as a legitimate field of scholarly study and appreciate this book's thorough and thoughtful analysis.'--Allyson Hewitt "Canadian Public Policy, vol 37:02:2011"