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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Routledge Contemporary China Series |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction and overview; 1.1 Main themes; 1.2 Overview; 1.3 A note on sources; 1.4 A topology of economic schools; 1.5 Neoclassical economics; 1.6 Marxian economics; 1.7 Heterodox economics; 1.8 What's at stake: the significance of competing paradigms and subtexts; 2 Factors shaping Chinese economic theory and education; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Domestic reasons for the popularity of neoclassical economics after 1978 |
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2.3 Foreign influences promoting neoclassical economics within China2.4 Conclusion; 3 The historical context for the evolution of Chinese economic theory; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Stimuli for restructuring 1976-1978; 3.3 General debates among Chinese economists: late 1970s-late 1980s; 3.4 Generational differences among Chinese economists; 3.5 Safeguarding Chinese socialism; 3.6 Resolving the debate: the road taken; 4 Economic restructuring in the countryside 1978-2001; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Rural economic reforms 1978-1989: historical narrative; 4.3 Differing master narratives |
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4.4 New versus old institutionalist economics4.5 Neoclassical thinking: the long shadow of classical liberalism; 4.6 Marxist thinking about rural restructuring; 4.7 Reconsidering rural reforms after Tiananmen Square: 1989-1991; 4.8 Round two: agricultural and rural restructuring 1992-2001; 4.9 Rural shareholding cooperatives; 4.10 An alternative heterodox view of rural issues; 5 Economic restructuring in the international sector; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Historical narrative 1978-1989; 5.3 Feedback: economic theory and economic events in the international sector: neoclassical and Marxist thought |
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5.4 The Tiananmen Square interregnum 1989-19915.5 International sector restructuring: round two 1992-2001: historical narrative; 5.6 Feedback between economic events and economic theory: neoclassical view; 5.7 Feedback: Marxist-heterodox views; 6 Economic restructuring of state-owned enterprises; 6.1 Introduction and historical narrative 1978-1989; 6.2 Neoclassical vs. Marxist analyses of SOE restructuring 1978-1989; 6.3 SOE restructuring 1989-1991; 6.4 SOE restructuring 1992-2001: historical narrative; 6.5 SOE restructuring 1992-2001: neoclassical perspective |
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6.6 SOE restructuring 1992-2001: Marxist and heterodox perspectives7 Sociology of knowledge lessons; 7.1 Some big questions and tentative answers; 7.2 Why did restructuring spread rapidly and promote capitalist practices?; 7.3 Sources of paradigmatic argument: subtexts; 7.4 Counterfactuals; 7.5 Trajectories; 7.6 Research priorities, questions asked, and data assembled; 7.7 Master narratives; 7.8 Analogies in the international sector; 7.9 Summing up; 8 Evolution of Chinese economics education 1978-2000: the spread of neoclassical economics; 8.1 Historical context; 8.2 Neoclassical narratives |
| Summary |
"When the Chinese economic reforms began in 1978, Marxist economics infused all the institutions of economic theory in China, from academic departments and economics journals to government departments and economic think tanks. By the year 2000, neoclassical economics dominated these institutions and organized most economic discussion. This book explains how and why neoclassical economic theory replaced Marxist economic theory as the dominant economics paradigm in China. It rejects the idea that the rise of neoclassical theory was a triumph of reason over ideology, and instead, using a sociology of knowledge approach, links the rise of neoclassical economics to broad ideological currents and to the political-economic projects that key social groups inside and outside China wanted to enable. The book concludes with a discussion of the nature of economic theory and economics education in China today."--Provided by publisher |
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Economics -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Economics -- China -- History -- 21st century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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Economic history
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Economics
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China -- Economic conditions -- 1976-2000.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024017
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China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315544762 |
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1315544768 |
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