Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development

Explores the relationship between the Chinese peasantry and the state-led economic system established by the Party after 1949.

List of contents

List of tables, figures, and maps; Preface; 1. The role of agriculture; 2. Planning and allocative efficiency; 3. Prices and intersectoral resource transfers; 4. Living standards and the distribution of income; 5. Prospects for reform; Appendixes; Notes; References; Index.

Summary

Explores the relationship between the Chinese peasantry, who are the fundamental base of support for the revolutionary Chinese Communist Party, and the state-led economic system established by the Party after 1949.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas R. Lardy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2014
• EAN: 9780521252461
• ISBN: 978-0-521-25246-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches