Economists often identify a reduction in the share of agricultural employment as a quantitative indication of the economic growth of nations. But this process did not occur in earnest in the People's Republic of China until the 1980s and to some extent in Japan until well into the mid-20th...

Pt. 1. Fitoussi lecture. Economics and China's economic rise / Wu Jinglian -- pt. 2. Perspectives of the Chinese economy. China's investment and GDP growth boom : when and how will it end? / Dwight H. Perkins ; Six systemic reforms with which China must press ahead / Lou Jiwei ; When demographic...

China has enjoyed a higher growth rate for a longer period than any other nation to date. This volume brings together leading economists to analyse this unprecedented economic boom, and discuss prospects for the future. Chapters address a wide range of issues, covering not only financial...

This article focuses on the roles of formal rules (laws) in institutional emergence, sustenance, crisis, and transition based on an examination of the Meiji Restoration and the Xinhai Revolution. It describes how formal rules in the polities of Qing China and Tokugawa Japan were enforced,...