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Overview
After explaining why local development is a problem in such a wealthy and resource-rich country as the United States, Christopher Gunn profiles more than two dozen organizations ranging from child-care cooperatives to retirement communities, from co-housing "villages" to financial institutions. He also investigates public-policy changes that could strengthen this alternative sector's contribution to economic development.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780801439919 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 12/16/2003 |
Series: | Ilr Press Books |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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"Christopher Gunn's Third-Sector Development highlights an engine for prosperity long overlooked by economists inside and outside of government. Gunn meticulously describes the contours, mission, and evolution of the nation's nonprofits and cooperativeswhich together make up the fastest-growing sector in the economyand then provides two dozen engaging case studies. Rich in data, stories, and insight, Third-Sector Development should be in the hands of the nation's expanding army of do-gooders as proof of the claim that they are the real foundation for America's economic future."
Perhaps the greatest achievement of Christopher Gunn's Third-Sector Development is to take seriously the economic contribution and potential of the independent sector. Not only does he remind us that we are talking about 10 percent of the current economy but he proceeds to sketch the dimensions of the sector's qualitative contributions. In a series of penetrating case studies accompanied by hardheaded analysis, he gives color and depth to arguably the most creative undertakings in today's economy. If indeed mainstream private-sector growth seems increasingly unable to solve social deficits (and may, in fact, be exacerbating them) while public-sector efforts shrink in the face of yawning economic deficits, we would be well advised to look more carefully to where Gunn points: the socio-frontier of third-sector development.
"Christopher Gunn illuminates one of the hidden recesses of our nation's vast nonprofit subcontinent and uncovers a mother lode of innovative organizations effectively mobilizing nonmarket impulses to offset some of the structural shortcomings of our market system. The result is a fascinating account of how third-sector organizations bring hope and progress to those left behind in the march of globalization."