How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 344 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781501700200
  • DDC分類 330.951

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WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE
"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS
WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY

"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."
-- Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee

Acclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," How China Escaped the Poverty Trap advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.

How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."

Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.

Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials.

Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.

Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.

Contents

Introduction: How Did Development Actually Happen?

Part 1 FRAMEWORK AND BUILDING BLOCKS

1. Mapping Coevolution

2. Directed Improvisation

Part 2 DIRECTION

3. Balancing Variety and Uniformity

4. Franchising the Bureaucracy

Part 3 IMPROVISATION

5. From Building to Preserving Markets

6. Connecting First Movers and Laggards

Conclusion: How Development Actually Happened Beyond China

Appendix A: Steps for Mapping Coevolution

Appendix B: Interviews