State and Market in the Chinese Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Peter Nolan

   Pages 1-8

3. Politics, Population and Economic Change: Reflections on the Causes of Slow Technical Progress in the Chinese Economy in Early/Mid Qing

   • Peter Nolan

   Pages 9-26

4. China and the World Economy, 1840s–1940s

   • Peter Nolan

   Pages 27-55

5. Assessing Economic Growth in the Asian NICs

   • Peter Nolan

   Pages 56-84

6. Death Rates, Life Expectancy and China’s Economic Reforms: A Critique of A.K. Sen (with John Sender)

   • Peter Nolan

   Pages 85-122

7. Why Do Famines Occur and How Can They Be Avoided? A Critique of A.K. Sen on Famine, with Special Reference to China

   • Peter Nolan

   Pages 123-172

8. Reforming Stalinist Systems: The Chinese Experience

   • Peter Nolan

   Pages 173-326

9. Back Matter

   Pages 327-338

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The book provides a unique examination of the relationship between the state and market in China's economic development over several centuries. Its analysis is situated in the wider context of debates about technical progress in the pre-modern world, about the impact of western imperialism, about the role of the state in the economic development of poor countries and in the transition of former communist countries away from Stalinist systems of political economy.

• China
• communism
• economic development
• economy
• reforms

• Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Fellow, USA

  Peter Nolan

Peter Nolan

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