INTRODUCTION Page 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The
Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Boston: Beacon, 2001). 2. Thomas S. Kuhn, The …

A striking difference among economies in transition from socialism is in government attitudes
toward economic development. In China, the government functions as a" helping hand" for …

Throughout his career, Victor Nee has been a leader in the analysis of China's economic
reforms, and for the last decade his work with Sonja Opper has fed into this agenda …

This essay traces the main lines of debate among economists during the course of China's
reform. It first reviews how the market has become legitimated in the country. Then it …

Everything in China's economy, especially the “Chinese miracle”(Lin 1995), is puzzling to
many people because “it is difficult to explain by mainstream economics in the West. It does …

This dissertation provides a public choice view of modern China's political economy. It
explores the evolution of China towards an authoritarian market economy. In particular, the …

Though the growing interest in the application of economic models to politics seems to have
bypassed the field of Soviet politics, there is one area in which both the analytical framework …

This paper studies the relationship between decentralization and the success of reform in
China. We argue that a particular form of decentralization—called market-preserving …

David Kang, Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the
Philippines (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Vivek Chibber, Locked In Place: State …

In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform,
while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic …