Dear Pen-lers, a fellow Scots Jesuit now working in Zimbabwe, Joseph Hampson SJ, sent me an interesting request for help with the theory of co-ops. Please email him ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with any suggestions you can think of. Thanks Peter Burns SJ Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 31 00:58:11 1996 > > Dear Peter > Greetings from a wet Harare. We're all feeling good about the heavy and > continuous rains this year, which has broken the cycle of drought years. > I've had my new destination since the beginning of the year - Archbishop's > secretary, and director of research at Silveira House, a Jesuit development > centre. > It's maybe a long shot, but I'd like some help identifying someone who could > offer a theoretical perspective on latest thinking on cooperatives. One of the > staff at the centre is trying to bring to birth a small book on the experiences > she's had dealing with coops recently, and we both thought it would be good to > get an overview. However coops have become a dirty word here -- yesterday I was > at a World Bank meeting (!), and met a guy I know in economics department, whom > I thought would be able to help out. Not only was he unable, but more > interestingly he couldn't name a single person in Zimbabwe now interested in > writing about cooperatives... > That's why I'm writing. Didn't you say you were a member of a conference on > socialist economics...could you post a message asking for help on this? > The Silveira House Series, where we'd want to publish this work on > cooperatives, has already published titles such as "A Critical Guide to ESAP", > "ESAP and Theology", "Land- for which people", "Health for Whom", "Waste or > Want". These look critically at effects of the Structural Adjustment Programme > in Zimbabwe, which in 1966 is starting its second five-year dose of medicine > from the World Bank. > Hope you can help. Many thanks. > Yours > Joe >
