| Title | Comment: Edwin Nourse's "The Place of the Cooperative in Our National Economy" |
| Author(s) | Joseph D. Coffey |
| Series | Volume 7 |
| Issue Date | 1992 |
| Abstract | Nourse saw the proper place of agricultural cooperatives as that of a “competitive yardstick” with the objective to keep other forms of business competitive-not to supersede them. The cooperative was to be an “economic architect, not commercial Napoleon.” The cooperative was a vehicle for improving the functioning of the free market economy, |