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Property Rights and Changes in China

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Authors:
  1. Qiren Zhou

    1. National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  • The author, as a witness and advocator of China’s reform, reviews important fields in the course of China’s reform from the academic perspective
  • The author is a leader of China’s new institutional economics. The book has been used in many institutions of higher learning as a teaching auxiliary of new institutional economics
  • The book, taking Coase’s research method as guide, is a textbook-style model for Coase’s research method
  • The author is an eminent economist and columnist who is popular with readers for his elegant style of writing

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Real-World Economics: Coase’s Methodology of Economics and Its Application in China

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 1-15

  3. Property Rights of Human Capital

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 17-23

  4. Rural Reform: A Review of Changes in Economic Institutions

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 25-77

  5. Farmers, Market, and Institutional Innovation: Deep Reform Faced by Rural Areas After Household Responsibility System

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 79-102

  6. Property Rights of Agricultural Land and Land Requisition System: A Major Reform Faced by Urbanization

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 103-145

  7. The Firm in the Market: A Special Contract Between Human Capital and Non-human Capital

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 147-159

  8. “Reward of Enterprise Control” and “Entrepreneur-Controlled Enterprise”: Entrepreneurial Human Capital in Public-Owned Enterprises

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 161-177

  9. The Nature of the Public-Owned Enterprise

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 179-195

  10. The Theory of the Firm and China’s Reform

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 197-208

  11. Competition, Monopoly, and Regulation: A Background Report on Anti-Monopoly Policy

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 209-247

  12. Health for All?—Debate on the New Round of Healthcare Reform in China

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 249-277

  13. Monetary System and Economic Growth

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 279-291

  14. System Cost and China’s Economy

    • Qiren Zhou
    Pages 293-314
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About this book

This book is selection of author’s articles about China’s reform and development.  The earliest article of the anthology was written in 1986 and the latest in 2017. The author studies the changes in property rights and system based on the practical experience of China’s reform. In the first article “Economics in the Real World”, the author expounds on Coasean Economics’ Research Method which is “neither fashionable nor popular” and finds out problems from the fascinating real world. It focuses on researching the constraint conditions and strives to have cognition generalized. Guided by this methodology, all the following articles are about empirical research on China’s reform, involving such fields as farmland reform, reform of state-owned enterprises, medical reform, urban-rural relationship, monetary system and regulatory reform. In the concluding article “Institutional Cost and China’s Economy”, the author, gives a new interpretation for the economic logic of the high-speed growth and transformation of China’s economy by redefining concepts. Reading the anthology, readers may not only follow the author’s train of thought to have an overview of the surging and magnificent reform course from small clues to the evident, but also have a broader train of thought on studying and comprehending the practical problems of China. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Qiren Zhou

About the author

Qiren Zhou graduated from Renmin University of China in 1982.  In 1980s, he worked for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Research Centre for Rural Development of the State Council, as he was engaged in the research of China’s reform and development.  
From 1989, he visited and studied at University of Oxford, University of Colorado, University of Chicago, and then University of California Los Angeles where he got his Ph.D. degree.
Since January 1996, he joined China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University (CCER).  
He was the Dean of National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University from 2008 to 2012.
He also served as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China during 2010-1012.
 
His researches focus on Property Rights and Contracts, Economic Institution Change, Firms and Market Organization, Monopoly and Regulation, Land System Reform and Urbanization, Money and Banking, etc. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Property Rights and Changes in China

  • Authors: Qiren Zhou

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9885-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peking University Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9884-5Published: 19 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9887-6Published: 19 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9885-2Published: 18 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 314

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian Economics, Industries, Economic Policy

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