Market Communism: The Institutional Foundation of China's Post-Mao Hyper-Growth

by Lance L. P. Gore

Book Overview

This book explains the paradox that China's rapid economic growth for the past twenty years has taken place in a communist institutional context and under the firm rule of the party-state. In contrast to the dominant explanations of the "Chinese miracle" that feature prominently the marketizing and liberalizing reforms, this book examines the role played by communist institutions and communist cadres in the economic success. With administrative decentralization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195907582
• ISBN13: 9780195907582
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"