| Author | : Minxin Pei |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2016-10-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0674737296 |
China’s efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China’s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.
| Author | : Anders Aslund |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2019-05-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 030024486X |
A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism. Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
| Author | : Stephen Haber |
| Publisher | : Hoover Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2013-11-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0817999663 |
Crony capitalism systems—in which those close to political policymakers receive favors allowing them to earn returns far above market value—are a fundamental feature of the economies of Latin America. Haber and his expert contributors draw from case studies in Mexico, Brazil, and other countries around the world to examine the causes and consequences of cronyism.
| Author | : David C. Kang |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2002-01-24 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521004084 |
Even in Korea, corruption was far greater than the conventional wisdom allows - so rampant was corruption that we cannot dismiss it; rather, we need to explain it."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Yuen Yuen Ang |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2020-05-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108802389 |
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces serious risks for the economy and political system. Since market opening, corruption in China has evolved toward access money. Using a range of data sources, the author explains the evolution of Chinese corruption, how it differs from the West and other developing countries, and how Xi's anti-corruption campaign could affect growth and governance. In this formidable yet accessible book, Ang challenges one-dimensional measures of corruption. By unbundling the problem and adopting a comparative-historical lens, she reveals that the rise of capitalism was not accompanied by the eradication of corruption, but rather by its evolution from thuggery and theft to access money. In doing so, she changes the way we think about corruption and capitalism, not only in China but around the world.
| Author | : Yasheng Huang |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2008-09-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139475134 |
Presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In the 1990s, the Chinese state reversed many of its rural experiments, with long-lasting damage to the economy and society. A weak financial sector, income disparity, rising illiteracy, productivity slowdowns, and reduced personal income growth are the product of the capitalism with Chinese characteristics of the 1990s and beyond. While GDP grew quickly in both decades, the welfare implications of growth differed substantially. The book uses the emerging Indian miracle to debunk the widespread notion that democracy is automatically anti-growth. As the country marked its 30th anniversary of reforms in 2008, China faces some of its toughest economic challenges and substantial vulnerabilities that require fundamental institutional reforms.
| Author | : Minxin Pei |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780674325630 |
The author concludes with provocative statements about regime transition from communism. He rejects the idealistic notion that democratization can, by itself, remove the structural obstacles to economic transformation, and he sees high economic and political costs as unavoidable in transition from communism along either the Soviet or the Chinese path.
| Author | : Ishac Diwan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 019879987X |
This volume provides new perspectives on crony capitalism in the Middle East. It draws on rich empirical information on the activities of political connected firms in the economy and their impact on private sector development in the region.
| Author | : Roland Boer |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2021-04-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9811616221 |
This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiaoping’s theory, the socialist market economy, a moderately well-off (Xiaokang) society, China’s practice and theory of socialist democracy, human rights, and Xi Jinping’s Marxism. In short, the resolute focus is the Reform and Opening-Up. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics is one of the most important global realities today. However, the concept and its practice remain largely misunderstood outside China. This book sets to redress such a lack of knowledge, by making available to non-Chinese speakers the sophisticated debates and conclusions in China concerning socialism with Chinese Characteristics. It presents this material in a way that is both accessible and thorough.
