Author
Barry Naughton, he University of California
Description
This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The book will be an essential resource for students, teachers, scholars, business people, and policymakers. It is suitable for classroom use for undergraduate or graduate courses.
After presenting background material on the pre-1949 economy and the industrialization, reform, and market transition that have taken place since, the book examines different aspects of the modern Chinese economy. It analyzes patterns of growth and development, including population growth and the one-child family policy; the rural economy, including agriculture and rural industrialization; industrial and technological development in urban areas; international trade and foreign investment; macroeconomic trends and cycles and the financial system; and the largely unaddressed problems of environmental quality and the sustainability of growth.
The text is notable also for placing China's economy in interesting comparative contexts, discussing it in relation to other transitional or developing economies and to such advanced industrial countries as the United States and Japan. It provides both a broad historical and macro perspective as well as a focused examination of the actual workings of China's complex and dynamic economic development. Interest in the Chinese economy will only grow as China becomes an increasingly important player on the world's stage. This book will be the standard reference for understanding and teaching about the next economic superpower.
Table of Contents ( Detail )
I. LEGACIES AND SETTING
1. The Geographical Setting
2. The Chinese Economy Before 1949
3. The Socialist Era, 1949-1978:
4. Market Transition: Strategy and Process
5. The Urban-Rural Divide
II. PATTERNS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
6. Growth and Structural Change
7. Population Growth and the One-Child Family
8. Labor and Human Capital
9. Living Standards: Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty
III. THE RURAL ECONOMY
10. Rural Organization
11. Agriculture: Output, Inputs, and Technology
12. Rural Industrialization: Township and Village Enterprises
IV. THE URBAN ECONOMY
13. Industry: Ownership and Governance
14. Structural Change: Industry, Energy, and Infrastructure
15. Technology Policy and the Knowledge-based Economy
V. CHINA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
16. International Trade
17. Foreign Investment
VI. MACROECONOMICS ANDFINANCE
18. Macroeconomic Trends and Cycles
19. Financial System
VII.CONCLUSION: CHINA'S FUTURE
20. Environmental Quality and the Sustainability of Growth
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