The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China

by Yue Hou

Book Overview

This book addresses the long-standing puzzle of how China's private sector manages to grow without secure property rights, and proposes a new theory of selective property rights to explain this phenomenon. Drawing on rich empirical evidence including in-depth interviews, a unique national survey of private entrepreneurs, two original national audit experiments and secondary sources, Professor Yue Hou shows that private entrepreneurs in China actively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108705537
• ISBN13: 9781108705530
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"