Whither China?

Restarting the Reform Agenda
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-022315-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 693 g

How has China been able to maintain high-speed economic growth during the last thirty-plus years and successfully transform itself from a poor, backward, and developing country to become the world's second-largest economy? What are the challenges that China faces today and how will she deal with them in order to continue moving toward a truly prosperous and modern society? Standing at a crossroads today, what future direction should China choose: a free market economy or state capitalism?

In a series of penetrating dialogues, Wu Jinglian, China's most celebrated and influential economist, and Ma Guochuan, chief commentator of Caijing Magazine, attempt to address the following question: "Where is China going? " This volume offers critical insights into the historical evolution of China's ongoing economic and social transformation. Strongly reflecting Professor Wu's views on the future prospects of the economic reforms, the book provides readers with a deep and lucid understanding of the social and economic issues now confronting China, analyzes their underlying causes, and examines the serious challenges to implementing further reforms.

Professor Wu argues that the only way to escape the various social ills in China today is to restart the economic and political reforms, which began thirty years ago but have slowed down during the recent decade, and to move China in the direction of a market economy, the rule of law, and democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jinglian, Wu

Guochuan, Ma

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hua, Xiaofeng

Hearst, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Dialogue 1: "Whither China? " in a new context

- Dialogue 2: Why should the Soviet-type economic system be reformed?

- Dialogue 3: The initial emergence of reform in 1956

- Dialogue 4: Reforms of the economic management system during the Maoist era

- Dialogue 5: The failure of state-owned reforms under market socialism

- Dialogue 6: Rural household contracting leads to the incremental reform strategy

- Dialogue 7: The sudden rise of the private sector

- Dialogue 8: External opening: A driver for reform

- Dialogue 9: The role of the "dual-track " system and its consequences

- Dialogue 10: Overall promotion of reform: A new phase

- Dialogue 11: The foundations of a market economy: Redefining property rights

- Dialogue 12: Reestablishing the financial system

- Dialogue 13: Returning to public finance

- Dialogue 14: The long and bumpy road to a social-security system

- Dialogue 15: Economic fluctuations and macroeconomic policies

- Dialogue 16: Unfinished market-oriented reforms

- Dialogue 17: Without political reform, economic reform will not succeed

- Dialogue 18: Difficulties in shifting the growth model

- Dialogue 19: Will China become a rent-seeking society?

- Dialogue 20: Restarting the reform agenda

Über Autor(innen)

For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's most celebrated and influential economist. Wu graduated from the Department of Economics of Fudan University in 1954. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Development Research Center under the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and Bao Steel Chair Professor of Economics at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His main research interests include comparative institutional analysis, and the theory and policy on the transformation of Chinese society. He won the "Outstanding Contribution to China's Economy Award " in 2005 and was awarded "Honorary President of the International Economic Association " (IEA) in 2011.

Ma Guochuan is the Chief Commentator of Caijing (Economist Journal) Magazine.

Xiaofeng Hua is a retiree from the World Bank. She has worked on economic development issues related to China and other Asian and African countries for the last thirty years.

Nancy Hearst is Research Librarian in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Collection of the Fung Library at Harvard University. She is also a free-lance editor for social-science books on contemporary China, and has been visiting China regularly since 1980.