1st Edition

Institutions and Chinese Economic Development A Comparative Historical Approach

By Li Tan Copyright 2022
214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

China’s rise as an economic power has posed some challenging questions: how did China achieve GDP growth that was even faster than the Four Asian Tigers? Is the "Chinese model" superior? Why hasn’t the rapid economic growth lead to democracy in the country as many observers expected? And can China sustain its rapid economic growth with its existing social system? Institutions and Chinese... Read more
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Core Institutions in China and England before the Industrial Revolution
Chapter 3. Core Institutions and the First Industrial Revolution
Chapter 4. The Chinese and Japanese States in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 5. Externally-Induced Industrial Developments in Qing China and Meiji Japan
Chapter 6. The Chinese Miracle: Economic Growth in Contemporary China
Chapter 7. Prospects of the Chinese Economic Development

Biography

Li Tan is a retired economist and former senior research analyst at a large financial company in New York. Holding a Ph.D. in economics, she has also worked at economic forecasting firms, and taught economics at universities in the USA.