From Mao to Market - Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China

This book argues that reform in China succeeded because government failed to prevent local officials from forcing prices to market levels.

List 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. Marketisation; 7. Escaping from the pitfalls.

Summary

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 sweeping reforms.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew H. Wedeman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2014
• EAN: 9780521809603
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80960-3
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 631 g
• Series: Cambridge Modern China (Hardco
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education