Stabler week 7

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The cooperative movement is a very humane, sustainable, and realistic approach to doing business in today’s world. I intend in this paper to discuss the positive principles behind the cooperative movement. These principles are the backbone of a business structure that supports humanity to exist in a large and densely populated world, to transcend inequality, where there is enough supply and integrity for all (abundance). Social capital, or trust, production and the efficacy of peoples work together is also a staple of the cooperative movement. A cooperative is defined by the International Cooperative Alliance as a group of people who join together in a common undertaking, in accord with the seven principles as follows (ICA, 1999):