Tak-Wing Ngo (ed.)

Rent Seeking in China

Herausgeber: Ngo, Tak-Wing; Wu, Yongping

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book which undertakes a systematic analysis of rent seeking activities in China. Using case studies from across economics sectors the contributors discuss the occurrence of the phenomenon, what range of activities are related to rent seeking practices and, more importantly, how rent seeking shapes political and economic development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780415467704
• ISBN-10: 0415467705
• Artikelnr.: 23605688

Autorenporträt

Tak-Wing Ngo teaches Chinese politics at Leiden University and is concurrently IIAS Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Yongping Wu is Professor and Deputy Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Politics of Rent Production 2. Rent Seeking, Corruption, and
Clientelism 3. Transition from Surplus Seeking to Rent Seeking 4. The
Institutional Context of Rent Seeking in Economic Transition 5. Local State
Takeover as Multiple Rent Seeking in Private Business 6. Rents and Rent
Seeking in the Coal Industry 7. Powering Rent Seeking in the Electricity
Industry 8. Rent Allocation and Industrial Policy Efficacy in the Steel
Industry 9. Rent Production and Industrial Governance in the Auto Industry
10. Rent Seeking and the Development of the Beer Industry 11. Rents,
Mergers, and Acquisitions in the Automotive and Beer Industries 12. Rent
Seeking, Corruption, and Local Finance in Historical Perspective 13. The
Chinese Mode of Rent Utilization in Comparative Perspective