Market Control and Planning in Communist China

by Dwight H. Perkins

In the first study in depth of this subject by an economist, the author focuses on a major problem--common to all planned economies--that has confronted the Chinese Communists: whether to centralize all controls in the hands of the planners, or to allow factory and farm managers some degree of autonomy regulated only by the indirect pressures of the market. Because the finding of a satisfactory solution has been of highest importance to Peking, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674549503
• ISBN13: 9780674549500
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"