Mapping China's Growth and Development in the Long Run, 221 BC to 2020

Kent Deng

ISBN 10: 9814667552 / ISBN 13: 9789814667555

Editore: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2015

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• Titolo: Mapping China's Growth and Development in the Long Run, 221 BC to 2020
• Editore: World Scientific Publishing Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9814667552
• ISBN 13: 9789814667555
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based. It covers China's resource endowments, historical contingencies (such as civil wars, invasions and climate changes) and ideologies (including Legalism, Confucianism, Social Darwinism, nationalism, and Marx-Stalinism) that shaped the particular path of growth and development in China over two millennia. This book aims to take the reader through China's remarkably long and colourful saga of growth and development, full of ups, downs, twists and turns. It shows that China's experience has neither been linear nor trouble-free.

China's long-term experience showcases the two fundamentals in growth and development: efficiency and equality. The lesson that one can learn from China's long history is that distributing incomes (equality) is as important as producing them (efficiency). By the same token, to secure growth and development, the political economy of government and governance is as critical in determining growth and development as resource endowments, technology, and market exchanges. This applied to China's past, and will inevitably apply to China's future.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Size and Longevity of the Empire
• Empire-building and Empire Maintenance
• Key Institutions
• Public Goods Provision
• Highlights of the Economy of the Empire
• Growth after the Empire
• Concluding Remarks

Readership: Academics, undergraduate and graduates students, professionals interested in China's economic history, economic performance, growth and development, and the political economy of governance.
Key Features:

• The long scope of China's history
• Unique approach to the subject
• Rich data from Chinese sources