pt. I. Introduction Introduction: market reform and the state. 1. The Chinese state from plan to market. 2. Tianjin: the government of a city under reform pt. II. Case studies in the emergence of state entrepreneurialism. 3. The state administration of real estate and its reform. 4. Market reform and its limits: entrepreneurialism in state real estate management departments. 5. The state administration of commerce and its reform. 6. The encroaching market: entrepreneurialism in state commerce departments pt. III. Conclusion. 7. China's entrepreneurial state
Summary
Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering. This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity in
Analysis
Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-262) and index
