China is currently undergoing an extensive economic reform. The reform has provided the economists with an excellent opportunity to compare and analyze the centrally planned economy and the market economy in regard to their merits and shortcomings. Most of the analytical tools in modern...

Most economics literature holds that the disparity in income and health resource allocation between China's urban and rural areas has been increasing since the beginning of the reform period in 1978. This paper argues, contrary to the conventional view, that the real gap in health resources...

This article investigates the major role of high land prices in the current massive intracountry industrial relocation from coastal to inland areas in China. A conceptual model is developed to explore the causalities of urban expansion, land prices, and coastal-to-inland business relocation. It...