This article explores the Nepalese cooperative movement during the last sixty-five years. It is now widely recognized that Nepal's cooperative movement has the capacity and promise to reduce societal economic inequities by reducing poverty and creating job possibilities. In the changing economic...

The productivity and political incentive of Chinese cooperative movement are still in controversy. We argue that the cooperative brings both scale effect and monitoring cost, and the free exit rights reduce the monitoring cost and raise the net revenue, but the radicalism lowers the effort input...

"Just as the Industrial Revolution in Britain suggested a promise of superabundance, David Ricardo, Robert Malthus, and their colleagues formalized classical political economy with its emphasis on scarcity, self-interest, and private accumulation of capital. At the same time, Robert Owen took a...

We investigate the economic resilience of the Italian regions between 2008 and 2019. We then calculate some indices of resistance as well as recovery for both real GDP per capita and employment. We show that during (and after) recessions such indices follow different patterns and the Southern...