Arve Hansen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He has a decade of experience working on development in Vietnam.  Jo Inge Bekkevold is a Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He was previously a career diplomat, with postings to China and Vietnam. Kristen Nordhaug is a Professor of Development Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University. His work focuses on political and economic development in East and Southeast Asia.

• Part I: The Socialist Market Economy: Ideology and Development.- Chapter 1: Introducing the Socialist Market Economy.- Chapter 2: The International Politics of Economic Reforms in China, Vietnam and Laos.- Part II State, Market and the Environment.- Chapter 4: Governance, the socialist market economy, and the Party-State in Vietnam and China.- Chapter 5: Reforming state-owned enterprises in a global economy: the case of Vietnam.- Chapter 6: Rural revolutions: Socialist, market and sustainable development of the countryside in Vietnam and Laos.- Chapter 7: Evolving Environmental Governance Structures in a Market Socialist State: The Case of Vietnam.- Part III State and Society: Inequality, Class and Conflict.- Chapter 8: Consumer socialism: Consumption, development and the new middle classes in China and Vietnam.- Chapter 9: Labour conflicts in the socialist market economy - China and Vietnam.- Chapter 10: Welfare and Social Policy in China – Building a new Welfare State.- Chapter 11: Capitalist Transformation and Habitus in Laos.- Part IV Concluding observations.- Chapter 12: Making Sense of the Socialist Market Economy.

Arve Hansen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He has a decade of experience working on development in Vietnam.  Jo Inge Bekkevold is a Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He was previously a career diplomat, with postings to China and Vietnam. Kristen Nordhaug is a Professor of Development Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University. His work focuses on political and economic development in East and Southeast Asia.

• Part I: The Socialist Market Economy: Ideology and Development.- Chapter 1: Introducing the Socialist Market Economy.- Chapter 2: The International Politics of Economic Reforms in China, Vietnam and Laos.- Part II State, Market and the Environment.- Chapter 4: Governance, the socialist market economy, and the Party-State in Vietnam and China.- Chapter 5: Reforming state-owned enterprises in a global economy: the case of Vietnam.- Chapter 6: Rural revolutions: Socialist, market and sustainable development of the countryside in Vietnam and Laos.- Chapter 7: Evolving Environmental Governance Structures in a Market Socialist State: The Case of Vietnam.- Part III State and Society: Inequality, Class and Conflict.- Chapter 8: Consumer socialism: Consumption, development and the new middle classes in China and Vietnam.- Chapter 9: Labour conflicts in the socialist market economy - China and Vietnam.- Chapter 10: Welfare and Social Policy in China – Building a new Welfare State.- Chapter 11: Capitalist Transformation and Habitus in Laos.- Part IV Concluding observations.- Chapter 12: Making Sense of the Socialist Market Economy.

Arve Hansen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He has a decade of experience working on development in Vietnam.  Jo Inge Bekkevold is a Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He was previously a career diplomat, with postings to China and Vietnam. Kristen Nordhaug is a Professor of Development Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University. His work focuses on political and economic development in East and Southeast Asia.

• Part I: The Socialist Market Economy: Ideology and Development.- Chapter 1: Introducing the Socialist Market Economy.- Chapter 2: The International Politics of Economic Reforms in China, Vietnam and Laos.- Part II State, Market and the Environment.- Chapter 4: Governance, the socialist market economy, and the Party-State in Vietnam and China.- Chapter 5: Reforming state-owned enterprises in a global economy: the case of Vietnam.- Chapter 6: Rural revolutions: Socialist, market and sustainable development of the countryside in Vietnam and Laos.- Chapter 7: Evolving Environmental Governance Structures in a Market Socialist State: The Case of Vietnam.- Part III State and Society: Inequality, Class and Conflict.- Chapter 8: Consumer socialism: Consumption, development and the new middle classes in China and Vietnam.- Chapter 9: Labour conflicts in the socialist market economy - China and Vietnam.- Chapter 10: Welfare and Social Policy in China – Building a new Welfare State.- Chapter 11: Capitalist Transformation and Habitus in Laos.- Part IV Concluding observations.- Chapter 12: Making Sense of the Socialist Market Economy.