Author: Oi, Jean C.
Title: Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1999). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xv,253 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Institutional Foundations of Chinese Economic Growth: An Introduction; Reassigning Property Rights over Revenue: Incentives for Rural Industrialization; Strategies of Development: Variation & Evolution in Rural Industry; Local State Corporatism: The Organization of Rapid Economic Growth; Principals & Agents: Central Regulation or Local Control; From Agents to Principals: Increasing Resource Endowments & Local Control; The Political Basis for Economic Reform: Concluding Reflections; Apprendices: Research & Documentation; Changes in China's Fiscal System.

Keywords: Chinese Economic History, China, Reform Policy, Economics Economy, Politics Political, Rural Development, Local Government, Entrepreneurship, East Asia