Enterprises, Industry and Innovation in the People's Republic of China
Questioning Socialism from Deng to the Trade and Tech War
Authors: Gabriele, Alberto
Free Preview- A novel and unconventional view on the quantitative and qualitative role of public ownership in China’s productive enterprises
- A comprehensive analysis of China’s National System of Innovation, stressing its uniqueness in the history of modern economic development
- Presents an original viewpoint on the relationship between socialism with Chinese characteristics and the socioeconomic reality in the People's Republic of China
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This book analyses and critically evaluates the development of two key components of China’s economy: the network of productive enterprises, and the national innovation system, from the inception of market-oriented reforms to the present day. The approach is a partly novel one, albeit inspired to classical political economy, rooted in the structure and evolution of social relations of production and exchange and of the institutional setting in these two crucial domains. The main findings are twofold: First, the role of planning and public ownership, far from withering, has being upheld and qualitatively enhanced, especially throughout the most recent stages of industrial reforms. Second, enterprises are increasingly participating - along with universities and research centers - in a concerted and historically unparalleled effort to dramatically upgrade China’s capacity to engage in indigenous innovation. As a result, China’s National Innovation System has been growing and strengthening at a pace much faster than that of the national economy as a whole. The book also presents a speculative and provisional perspective on the validity, and meaning, of the claim that the country’s socioeconomic system is indeed a form of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It will be on interest to students and scholars researching China, politics, and development economics.
- About the authors
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Alberto Gabriele has worked for over thirty years as a UN economist in New York, Geneva, and in dozens of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He has published several articles in major scientific journals and collaborated on various edited books. His main research interests are international trade, industrial policies, income and wealth distribution, and the distinctive development trajectories of China, Vietnam, and Cuba.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction: China as the First Example of a New Class of Social Economic Formations
Pages 1-15
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Productive Market-Oriented Enterprises
Pages 19-24
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Agricultural and Industrial Rural Enterprises
Pages 25-45
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SOE Reforms: Grasp the Large and Let the Small Go
Pages 47-66
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Recent Trends in the Reform of Industrial Enterprises
Pages 67-80
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Enterprises, Industry and Innovation in the People's Republic of China
- Book Subtitle
- Questioning Socialism from Deng to the Trade and Tech War
- Authors
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- Alberto Gabriele
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-15-2121-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-2121-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-15-2120-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-15-2123-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 301
- Number of Illustrations
- 33 b/w illustrations
- Topics