Between Politics and Markets

Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China

AvYi-min Lin,Mark Granovetter

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets and authorities. Lin reveals their concurrent development through an account of how industrial firms competed their way out of the plan through exchange relations with one another and with state agents. He argues that the two markets were mutually accommodating, that the political market grew also from a decay of the state's self-monitoring capacity, and that economic actors' competition for special favors from state agents constituted a major driving force of economic institutional change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-07-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521604048

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Yi-min Lin is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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'Between Politics and Markets is an excellent book. It pushes us beyond the conventional dichotomy of state and market and, in exploring the interaction of the two, tells us a great deal about the process of economic development in China.' Journal of Economic Literature

Innehållsförteckning

List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Economic market and political market; 1. Chinese factories: organization, institutional change, and performance variation; 2. Central planning and its decline; 3. Survival of the fittest in power-leveraged competition; 4. Referee as player: menaces and opportunities for industrial firms; 5. Hierarchies and markets in the 'Local Inc.': a tale of two localities; 6. Favor-seeking and relational constraints; 7. Competition, economic growth and latent problems; Conclusion; Appendices.