The beginning of the 1980s found China in the throes of an economic riptide.* A reform-
minded leadership, attempting to reverse the direction of two decades, was promoting an …

China has been in the throes of an economic riptide. A reform-minded leadership,
attempting to reverse the direction of two decades is promoting an economic system quite …

The post-Mao era has brought fundamental changes in official Chinese thinking about the
nature of socialist economics and development. While few elements of the new paradigm …

This article attempts to provide explanations and arguments to posit that Maoist socialism
was a great leap forward in terms of its objectives and overall achievements despite heavy …

It seems that periods during which Mao Zedong dominated the political process in China
were characterized by high accumulation rates and emphasis on growth of heavy industry …

The major reforms announced in December 1978 at the Third Plenum of the Eleventh
Congress of the Chinese Communist Party mark a watershed in the political economy of …

China's experience with socialist economic development created an irony from which two
perspectives spring.! From one perspective, China under Mao's leadership did respectably …

This chapter examines China's economic form, which was implemented after 1978. The
similarities and differences between the views of the two leaders of the Communist Party …

This essay traces the evolution of the political economy of China from the 1949 revolution up
to the triumph of Chinese capitalism in 1992. It first describes and discusses the tremendous …

Writing some twenty years ago, and sounding a bit more like an institutionalist than he might
care to, John Kenneth Galbraith quipped" the enemy of the market is not ideology but the …