Capitalism from Below : : Markets and Institutional Change in China / / Sonja Opper, Victor Nee.
More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China e...
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Nee, Victor, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Capitalism from Below : Markets and Institutional Change in China / Sonja Opper, Victor Nee. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (360 p.) : 5 line illustrations, 2 maps, 15 graphs, 29 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Where Do Economic Institutions Come From? -- 2. Markets and Endogenous Institutional Change -- 3. The Epicenter of Bottom-Up Capitalism -- 4. Entrepreneurs and Institutional Innovation -- 5. Legitimacy and Organizational Change -- 6. Industrial Clusters and Competitive Advantage -- 7. The Development of Labor Markets -- 8. Institutions of Innovation -- 9. Political Economy of Capitalism -- 10. Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. Firm Surveys -- APPENDIX 2. List of Interviewees -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private enterprise overcome these initial obstacles, to become the engine of China's economic miracle? Where did capitalism come from?Studying over 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, Victor Nee and Sonja Opper argue that China's private enterprise economy bubbled up from below. Through trial and error, entrepreneurs devised institutional innovations that enabled them to decouple from the established economic order to start up and grow small, private manufacturing firms. Barriers to entry motivated them to build their own networks of suppliers and distributors, and to develop competitive advantage in self-organized industrial clusters. Close-knit groups of like-minded people participated in the emergence of private enterprise by offering financing and establishing reliable business norms. This rapidly growing private enterprise economy diffused throughout the coastal regions of China and, passing through a series of tipping points, eroded the market share of state-owned firms. Only after this fledgling economy emerged as a dynamic engine of economic growth, wealth creation, and manufacturing jobs did the political elite legitimize it as a way to jump-start China's market society. Today, this private enterprise economy is one of the greatest success stories in the history of capitalism. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. bisacsh Opper, Sonja, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 9783110288995 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE LAW 2012 9783110293814 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET RECHTSWISSENSCHAFTEN 2012 9783110288919 ZDB-23-DGC Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674050204 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065390 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674065390 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674065390.jpg |
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