How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate

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Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations List of Figures List of Illustrations Introduction Part I Modes of Market Creation and Price Regulation Chapter 1 Bureaucratic Market Participation: Guanzi and the Salt and Iron Debate Chapter 2 From Market to War Economy and Back: American Price Control during the Second World War and Its Aftermath Chapter 3 Re-creating the Economy: Price Stabilization and the Communist Revolution Part II China’s Market Reform Debate Chapter 4 The Starting Point: Price Control in the Maoist Economy and the Urge for Reform Chapter 5 Rehabilitating the Market: Chinese Economists, the World Bank, and Eastern European Émigrés Chapter 6 Market Creation versus Price Liberalization: Rural Reform, Young Intellectuals, and the Dual-Track Price System Chapter 7 Debunking Shock Therapy: The Clash of Two Market Reform Paradigms Chapter 8 Escaping Shock Therapy: Causes and Consequences of the 1988 Inflation Conclusion Key Chinese Reform Economists Author’s Interviews Bibliography Index