How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I Modes of Market Creation and Price Regulation
Chapter 1 Bureaucratic Market Participation: Guanzi and the Salt and Iron Debate
Chapter 2 From Market to War Economy and Back: American Price Control during the Second World War and Its Aftermath
Chapter 3 Re-creating the Economy: Price Stabilization and the Communist Revolution
Part II China’s Market Reform Debate
Chapter 4 The Starting Point: Price Control in the Maoist Economy and the Urge for Reform
Chapter 5 Rehabilitating the Market: Chinese Economists, the World Bank, and Eastern European Émigrés
Chapter 6 Market Creation versus Price Liberalization: Rural Reform, Young Intellectuals, and the Dual-Track Price System
Chapter 7 Debunking Shock Therapy: The Clash of Two Market Reform Paradigms
Chapter 8 Escaping Shock Therapy: Causes and Consequences of the 1988 Inflation
Conclusion
Key Chinese Reform Economists
Author’s Interviews
Bibliography
Index