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Author Wang, Junmin

Title State-Market Interactions in China's Reform Era : Local State Competition and Global Market Building in the Tobacco Industry
Published London : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (177 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary China Series
Routledge contemporary China series.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Dedication; 1 What is unknown in the "Beijing Consensus": decentralized and dispersed state ownership; 2 Toward a new framework: market-building as state-building; 3 From central state monopoly to local state competition; 4 The rise of China's "tobacco empire"; 5 "Recentralization" and global market-building; 6 More global, deeper local; Appendix; Notes; References; Index
Summary China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a case study of China's tobacco industry, this book analyses how the Chinese government was able to cultivate big state-owned firms that have successfully embraced the global market. The success of the Chinese economy and the many state-owned firms within it have given rise to a ""Beijing Consensus, "" challenging almost every principle enshrined in the so-called ""Washington Consensus"" that espouses private ownership, free markets, and democr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Tobacco industry -- China
Tobacco industry -- Government ownership -- China
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Commerce
Economic policy
Tobacco industry
Tobacco industry -- Government ownership
SUBJECT China -- Commerce
China -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024018
Subject China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136238963
1136238964
0415506948
9780415506946
9781306894104
1306894107
9780203102206
0203102207