In late 2007, the Chinese Communist Party's 17th Congress outlined a programme of eight key economic policies to address future economic development in China. These policies emphasized 'building a harmonious society' using a 'scientific approach'. The paper assesses whether these policies are...

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories. The first story is a standard development story characterized by structural change, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets...

Using China's provincial-level panel data from 1978–2008, we examine the effects of entrepreneurship on economic growth in the context of China's transformation from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy. We divide entrepreneurship into two types: business creation and innovation....

This paper studies the persistent effects of China’s Great Wall, built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), on contemporary regional ethnic diversity and economic development. Using rich township-level and individual-level data combined with spatial regression discontinuity strategy, we find that...

The paper analyses the development strategy adopted In China after 1978. It is shown that it has not followed a pre-determined plan but, on the contrary has emerged as a result of political shocks in the core of the CCP and of other factors related to history and geography

This paper applies a systems-oriented, "holistic" approach to China's radical economic reforms during the last quarter of a century. It characterizes China's economic reforms in terms of a multidimensional classification of economic systems. When looking at the economic consequences of China's...

I discuss the nature of the economic reforms in China during the last quarter of a century in the context of a typology of economic systems, emphasizing the interaction between economic and social mechanisms. I also consider China's options for further reforms. I focus on economic reforms that...

A society is composed of different socio-economic groups. At a given time, individuals in the society can be classified into different such groups. With the change of time, individuals can move across different groups. Social mobility is viewed as an aggregation of such individual movements...

Academic freedom has been suppressed at various times through history. By analyzing a unique dataset, we demonstrate that the purge of China’s most eminent scholars during the Cultural Revolution was highly selective, targeting those in the humanities and social sciences who either failed to...