Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521623223)

This book focuses on China's rural industries, offering an innovative, theoretical framework to explain insitutional change. Susan Whiting explores the complex interactions of individuals, institutions, and the broader political economy to examine variation and change in property rights and extractive institutions in China's rural industrial sector. Whiting explains why public ownership predominated during the early years of reform and why privatization is now taking place. This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Chinese economic development, but also of comparative politics and political economy more generally.

Author: Susan H. Whiting
ISBN-10: 0521623227
ISBN-13: 9780521623223
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2000
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 563