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Cooperatives are not ideological cliques trying to detach themselves from the world. In simple terms, they are merely associations of people who establish a business to provide themselves with certain services in order to thrive in the global market.
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The phrase ‘enlightened self-interest’ comes directly from philosopher David Hume, the colleague and sounding board of Adam Smith.
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Example: Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein, Availability Cascades and Risk regulation, 51 Stan. L. Rev. 683, 688–89, 746 (1998).
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van Dijk, G., Sergaki, P., Baourakis, G. (2019). Twin Goals and Two Communities: A Behavioural Approach. In: The Cooperative Enterprise. Cooperative Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16279-5_4
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