Unmaking China's development

Unmaking China's development: the function and credibility of institutions

by Ho, Peter

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Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho argues that understanding China's economy necessitates an analytical refocusing from Form to Function, detached from no…

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  • Full title :Unmaking China's development : the function and credibility of institutions / Peter Ho.

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Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho argues that understanding China's economy necessitates an analytical refocusing from Form to Function, detached from normative assumptions about institutional appearance and developing instead a 'Credibility Thesis'. In this reading, once institutions endogenously emerge and persist through actors' conflicting interactions, they are credible. Ho develops this idea theoretically, methodologically, and empirically by examining institutions around the sector that propelled, yet, simultaneously destabilizes development: real estate - land, housing and natural resources. Ho shows how this sector can further both our understanding of institutions and issues of capital, labor, infrastructure and technology.

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  • Publication Date:2017.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xx, 316 pages) : : PDF file(s).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781316145616, 1316145611, 1107094100, 9781107094109, 1107476046, 9781107476042
  • oclc:on1173277732
  • LC Classification:HC427.95
  • Dewey Decimal:338.951

Subjects

China China -- Economic policy -- 2000- Chine -- Politique économique -- 2000- Economic policy Housing Housing -- China Land use -- Management Land use -- Management. -- China natural resources Natural resources -- China Management Since 2000 Utilisation du sol -- Gestion. -- Chine

Writers

Ho, Peter

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