Molly Scott Cato is Lecturer in Social Economy at the Welsh Institute for Research into Co-operatives, University of Wales Institute Cardiff. She is author of Seven Myths About Work (1996) and co-editor of Green Economics: Beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's Needs (1999).

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