How China Escaped the Poverty Trap /
Ang, Yuen Yuen
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap / Yuen Yuen Ang. - 1 online resource (344 p.) : 11 halftones, 1 map, 15 tables, 24 charts - Cornell Studies in Political Economy .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: HOW DID DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPEN? -- Part 1. FRAMEWORK AND BUILDING BLOCKS -- 1 MAPPING COEVOLUTION -- 2 DIRECTED IMPROVISATION -- Part 2. DIRECTION -- 3 BALANCING VARIETY AND UNIFORMITY -- 4 FRANCHISING THE BUREAUCRACY -- Part 3. IMPROVISATION -- 5 FROM BUILDING TO PRESERVING MARKETS -- 6 CONNECTING FIRST MOVERS AND LAGGARDS -- Conclusion: HOW DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPENED BEYOND CHINA -- Appendix A: STEPS FOR MAPPING COEVOLUTION -- Appendix B: INTERVIEWS -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
‹p›‹b›WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY‹/b›"‹i›‹b›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/b›‹/i› truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."- Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee‹/p›‹p›Acclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," ‹b›‹i›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/i› ‹/b›advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.‹/p›‹p›How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."‹/p›‹p›Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.‹/p›‹p›Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials.‹/p›‹p›Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.‹/p›‹p›Bold and meticulously researched, ‹b›‹i›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/i› ‹/b›opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.‹/p›
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501705854
10.7591/9781501705854 doi
Economic development--China.
Economic development--Developing countries.
Poverty--China.
Poverty--Developing countries.
Asian Studies.
General Economics.
Political Science & Political History.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
economic conditions in china, history of chinese economy, chinese economic policy, economic development in china.
HC427.92 / .A74 2016eb
338.951
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap / Yuen Yuen Ang. - 1 online resource (344 p.) : 11 halftones, 1 map, 15 tables, 24 charts - Cornell Studies in Political Economy .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: HOW DID DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPEN? -- Part 1. FRAMEWORK AND BUILDING BLOCKS -- 1 MAPPING COEVOLUTION -- 2 DIRECTED IMPROVISATION -- Part 2. DIRECTION -- 3 BALANCING VARIETY AND UNIFORMITY -- 4 FRANCHISING THE BUREAUCRACY -- Part 3. IMPROVISATION -- 5 FROM BUILDING TO PRESERVING MARKETS -- 6 CONNECTING FIRST MOVERS AND LAGGARDS -- Conclusion: HOW DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPENED BEYOND CHINA -- Appendix A: STEPS FOR MAPPING COEVOLUTION -- Appendix B: INTERVIEWS -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
‹p›‹b›WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY‹/b›"‹i›‹b›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/b›‹/i› truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."- Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee‹/p›‹p›Acclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," ‹b›‹i›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/i› ‹/b›advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.‹/p›‹p›How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."‹/p›‹p›Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.‹/p›‹p›Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials.‹/p›‹p›Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.‹/p›‹p›Bold and meticulously researched, ‹b›‹i›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/i› ‹/b›opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.‹/p›
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501705854
10.7591/9781501705854 doi
Economic development--China.
Economic development--Developing countries.
Poverty--China.
Poverty--Developing countries.
Asian Studies.
General Economics.
Political Science & Political History.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
economic conditions in china, history of chinese economy, chinese economic policy, economic development in china.
HC427.92 / .A74 2016eb
338.951