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"The Political Economy of China's Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a general political background for the socio-economic, fiscal and urban and rural transformation. The book analyses the economic transformation and addresses the shortcomings of existing interpretations of the "Chinese Miracle" and develops a new multi-dimensional framework. In addition, it shows how the private sector has been developing and what a major role it is playing in pushing forward the overall economic development. The book also focuses on the analysis of China's fiscal transformation. With the set of refined principles of fiscal federalism that the author has developed, it examines the problems of Chinese fiscal federalism in contrast to them. It further elaborates on topics such as the local government debt and explains why further reforms are necessary, making this book a very comprehensive read to understand China's progress."--Publisher's description

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Development of China's non-state enterprises -- The growth of private enterprises : an overview -- Regulations and policies on growth of non-state enterprises -- Overall evaluation of the non-state enterprise ecosystem -- Protection of non-state enterprise property rights -- Financial market entry for non-state enterprises -- Market entry for non-state enterprises -- Domestic and international capital flows of non-state enterprises -- Internal governance of non-state enterprises -- Findings -- Policy recommendations -- References

Summary
The rapid economic development and transformation of the Chinese society over the past three decades has, by a large mass of analysts, been called a "Miracle". This paper not only addresses the shortcomings of existing interpretations but also develops a new multi-dimensional framework based on North′s theory of institutional change and Hayek′s theory of institutional evolution to explain China′s miraculous growth. Our analysis shows that both Hayekian spontaneous order and Popper′s "piecemeal social engineering" played a major role in attaining China′s miraculous growth.

AbstractCulture, mainly defined as values and beliefs, has recently attracted much attention in economics. Cultural practices receive less attention, as emphasized in anthropology. We argue that the notion of 'ritual' can enrich economic research on culture as a specific form of socially standardized interactions that create shared contexts and emotions to build mutual trust and community. China is an important case in point, because ritual is a central concern in common interpretations of traditional Chinese culture. We look at practices of Chinese entrepreneurs that activate rituals in various settings. We conclude that these phenomena can be analytically condensed in the cultural complex of a 'ritual economy'.