China's Economic Development Past and Present

This essential reader brings together a collection of influential contributions on China's economic development, which first appeared in the Palgrave journal Comparative Economic Studies. Each chapter has been carefully selected for the contribution it has made to furthering the understanding of China's unique path to development. Topics covered include: public infrastructure, urbanisation policy, industrial policy, monetary policy, agricultural crisis and land reform.

It is essential reading for professionals, scholars and researchers interested in China and economic development.

Josef C. Brada is Professor of Economics at Arizona State University, USA.
 
Paul Wachtel is Professor of Economics and Academic Director, B.S. in Business and Political Economy Program at Leonard N Stern School of Business, USA.
 
Dennis Yang is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, USA.

1.Dual-Track and Mandatory Quota in China's Price Reform; Anthony Y C Koo, Norman P Obst
2.State-Owned versus Township and Village Enterprises in China; Enrico C Perotti, Laixiang Sun, Liang Zou
3.China's Agricultural Crisis and Famine of 1959–1961: A Survey and Comparison to Soviet Famines; Dennis Tao Yang
4.Labor Reform in China: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones; Margaret Maurer-Fazio
5.The Changing Role of Money in China and Its Implications; Carsten A Holz
6.Public Infrastructure Development in China; Shuanglin Lin
7.The Structure of Chinese Industry and the Impact from China's WTO Entry free; Aimin Chen
8.Economic Consequences of Urbanisation and Urbanisation Policy in China; Josef C Brada, Belton M Fleisher, Scott Rozelle, Johan Swinnen
9.The Role of the State in China's Industrial Development: A Reassessment free; Alberto Gabriele
10. China's Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate; Aaron Mehrotra, José R Sánchez-Fung
11. Individual Perceptions of Distributional Fairness in China; John A Bishop, Haiyong Liu, Zichong Qu
12. Challenges to China's Policy: Structural Change; Helmut Wagner
13. Sectoral Productivity and Regional Disparities in China, 1978–2006; Kiril Tochkov, Wenting Yu
14. How Has China's Economic Emergence Contributed to the Field of Economics?; Gary H Jefferson
15. Reforming China's SOE's: An Overview; Weiye Li, Louis Putterman
16. Effect of Migration on Children's Educational Performance in Rural China; X Chen, Q. Huang, S. Rozelle, Y. Shi, L. Zhang