Cover -- Praise for Markets over Mao -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- PIIE's Board of Directors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 State versus Market Capitalism -- Chapter 2 Reform of State-Owned Enterprises -- Chapter 3 Rise of the Private Sector...

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