Justin Yifu Lin

Demystifying the Chinese Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

China was the largest and one of the most advanced economies in the world before the eighteenth century, yet declined precipitately thereafter and degenerated into one of the world's poorest economies by the late nineteenth century. Despite generations' efforts for national rejuvenation, China did not reverse its fate until it introduced market-oriented reforms in 1979. Since then it has been the most dynamic economy in the world and is likely to regain its position as the world's largest economy before 2030. Based on economic analysis and personal reflection on policy debates, Justin Yifu Lin provides insightful answers to why China was so advanced in pre-modern times, what caused it to become so poor for almost two centuries, how it grew into a market economy, where its potential is for continuing dynamic growth and what further reforms are needed to complete the transition to a well-functioning, advanced market economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780521181747
• ISBN-10: 0521181747
• Artikelnr.: 34226758

Autorenporträt

Justin Yifu Lin is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and returned to China in 1987, the first PhD in social sciences to return from abroad after China started economic reform in 1979. He was the founding director of China Center for Economic Research at Peking University from 1994 to 2008 and is the author of seventeen books, including The China Miracle (1996), State-Owned Enterprise Reform in China (2001) and Economic Development and Transition (Cambridge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; 1. Opportunities and challenges in China's economic development; 2. Why the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions bypassed China; 3. The great humiliation and the Socialist Revolution; 4. The comparative advantage-defying, catching-up strategy and the traditional economic system; 5. Enterprise viability and factor endowments; 6. The comparative advantage-following development strategy; 7. Rural reform and the three rural issues; 8. Urban reform and the remaining issues; 9. Reforming the state-owned enterprises; 10. The financial reforms; 11. Deflationary expansion and building a new socialist countryside; 12. Improving the market system and promoting fairness and efficiency for harmonious development; 13. Reflections on neoclassical theories; Appendix 1. Global imbalances, reserve currency and global economic governance; Index.

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List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
1. Opportunities and challenges in China's economic development
2. Why the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions bypassed China
3. The great humiliation and the Socialist Revolution
4. The comparative advantage-defying, catching-up strategy and the traditional economic system
5. Enterprise viability and factor endowments
6. The comparative advantage-following development strategy
7. Rural reform and the three rural issues
8. Urban reform and the remaining issues
9. Reforming the state-owned enterprises
10. The financial reforms
11. Deflationary expansion and building a new socialist countryside
12. Improving the market system and promoting fairness and efficiency for harmonious development
13. Reflections on neoclassical theories
Appendix 1. Global imbalances, reserve currency and global economic governance
Index.

Rezensionen

'No one knows the Chinese economy better than Justin Lin, and there's no one better placed to describe its essential workings. A unique perspective on the Chinese miracle from a unique perch.' Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley