Food Co-ops and Capitalism

Food Co-ops and Capitalism
People check out at a Wheatsville Co-op store in Austin, Texas, in this file photo. Wheatsville
Max Gulker
Max Gulker
Senior Research Fellow
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Take a stroll through your local food co-op and you’re likely to find plenty of folks who don’t react so well to the concept of “free market capitalism.”

You might get a couple of lectures on social justice and an earful on the industrialization of global food production and the havoc it wreaks on society. But political tribalism aside, co-ops can be great practitioners of free-market capitalism and integral parts of thriving free market economies.

Max Gulker
Senior Research Fellow
Max Gulker is a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. Gulker holds a doctorate in economics from Stanford University and a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Michigan.
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