Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State

Author:   Yingyao Wang
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   21 May 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Yingyao Wang
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231214780


ISBN 10:   0231214782
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   21 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Genesis 1. The Socialist Circulators and the Bureaucratic Origin of China’s Economic Reform 2. Balanced Development or Decentralized Growth? Elite Reformers in the 1980s Part II. Consolidation 3. The Rise of Technocrats: Market Rationalization and the Macrocontrol Paradigm 4. National Champions and the Organizational Approach to Enterprises and Markets Part III. Effervescence 5. The Remaking of Public Finance in China and the Financial Approach to Economic Control 6. The Ascent of the Industrial View: Industrial Policy for Making a Manufacturing Superpower Conclusion List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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This book opens the black box of bureaucracy to reveal the agency of the men and women who designed and redesigned Chinese economic policy in the post-Mao era. A fascinating story that tells us something new about China’s rise, as well as the role of technocrats in economic development. -- Sarah Babb, author of <i>Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism</i> It's often too easy to treat the state as a solid and coherent behemoth. Yingyao Wang’s book opens up the black box of the Chinese bureaucracy and provides a wonderful analytic narrative of how organizations and individuals shape each other. Instead of seeing only a homogeneous mass of party cadres, we can now understand the career, geographical, and generational diversity behind the shifting Chinese policy paradigms. -- Miguel A. Centeno, coeditor of <i>State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: The Neoliberal State and Beyond</i> A major contribution to our knowledge of economic policymaking in post-Mao China, this book offers a rare look into the bureaucratic inner workings of the technocrats in major industrial and financial arenas. Wang uses a distinctive sociological lens to make sense of the social world in which those technocrats’ career trajectories intersect, social networks are formed and reconfigured and, in so doing, the Chinese state evolves and is remade. -- Xueguang Zhou, author of <i>The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach</i>


This book opens the black box of bureaucracy to reveal the agency of the men and women who designed and redesigned Chinese economic policy in the post-Mao era. A fascinating story that tells us something new about China’s rise, as well as the role of technocrats in economic development. -- Sarah Babb, author of <i>Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism</i> It's often too easy to treat the state as a solid and coherent behemoth. Yingyao Wang’s book opens up the black box of the Chinese bureaucracy and provides a wonderful analytic narrative of how organizations and individuals shape each other. Instead of seeing only a homogeneous mass of party cadres, we can now understand the career, geographical, and generational diversity behind the shifting Chinese policy paradigms. -- Miguel A. Centeno, coeditor of <i>State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: The Neoliberal State and Beyond</i>


This book opens the black box of bureaucracy to reveal the agency of the men and women who designed and redesigned Chinese economic policy in the post-Mao era. A fascinating story that tells us something new about China’s rise, as well as the role of technocrats in economic development. -- Sarah Babb, author of <i>Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism</i>


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Yingyao Wang is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.

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