Red China's green revolution : technological innovation, institutional change, and economic development under the commune /

China's dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eisenman, Joshua, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Green Revolution > China.
Communes (China)
Agriculture > Economic aspects > China.
Agriculture and state > China.
Révolution verte > Chine.
Communes populaires (Chine)
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Chine.
Politique agricole > Chine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Agriculture and state
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Green Revolution
China
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreward / by Lynn T. White III
  • Prologue : China's missing institution
  • Introduction : assessing commune productivity
  • Part I. Creating China's green revolution. Institutional origins and evolution
  • China's green revolution
  • Part II. Sources of commune productivity. Economics : super-optimal investment
  • Politics : Maoism
  • Organization : size and structure
  • Burying the commune
  • Conclusion.

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