From Mao to market : rent seeking, local protectionism, and marketization in China /

This book argues that China succeeded in moving from a Maoist command economy to a market economy because government failed to prevent local officials from forcing prices to market levels. The 'resource wars' that resulted from partial price reform in the early 1980s cleared the way for sw...

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Main Author: Wedeman, Andrew Hall, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge modern China series.
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