From Mao to market : rent seeking, local protectionism, and marketization in China /
Andrew Wedemen argues that China succeeded in moving from a Maoist command economy to a market economy because the central government failed to prevent local governments from forcing prices to market levels. Having partially decontrolled the economy in the early 1980s, economic reformers baulked at...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Series: | Cambridge modern China series.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Pitfalls of Reform
- 2. Policy and Institutional Change
- 3. Rent Seeking and Local Protectionism
- 4. Export Protectionism
- 5. Import Protectionism
- 6. Marketization
- 7. Escaping from the Pitfalls.