Carl RatnerCarl Ratner has been an activist in the co-op movement since the 1970s. He has been a director of Northcoast Co-op, the largest consumer food co-op in California for 12 years. He was also President of its Community Fund for 5 years. He is a member ofthe Association of Cooperative Educators, and he blogs for Grassroots Economic Organizing. Ratner has written extensively on the international co-op movement after visiting many model co-ops in Spain and Italy, including Mondragon. Ratner is concerned to analyze the strengths and shortcomings of co-ops. He has analyzed both their theoretical principles and their everyday operations. Dr. Ratner has spent an academic career in the area of cultural psychology. He has researched the reciprocal interaction between culture and psychology. He is interested in how co-ops facilitate a cooperative psychology, and he is interested in how non-cooperative psychology impedes the development of co-ops. Read More Read Less