This work compares the health cooperatives fêted in Maoist China in the 1960s to the New Rural Medical Co-operative Scheme (NRCMS) that has been operating in China since 2002. Organizational and ideological similarities between the old and new co-operative medical schemes are described. By...

This work presents a history of the co-operative firm in China from its origins in the early twenth century. The aim is to describe how in its evolution, the Chinese Co-operative Movement has diverged from the western notion of a co-operative. To understand the similarities and the divergence,...

Chapter 1: Introduction to Participation and Cooperative Approaches for Sustainability by Andrea Bernardi - Massimiliano Mazzanti - Salvatore Monni -- Chapter 2: The co-operative firm: An old institution for a new world. Entrepreneurial biodiversity and circular economy by Andrea Bernardi -...