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To get the prices right for food: a “Gerschenkron state” versus the market in reforming China, 1979–2006

Du, Jane and Deng, Kent (2016) To get the prices right for food: a “Gerschenkron state” versus the market in reforming China, 1979–2006. Economic History working papers (234/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

This article provides an empirical assessment of China’s state price policies and strategies in relation to (1) market-rebuilding for the agricultural sector and (2) food security for China.1 It traces main changes in government grain pricing, urban food subsidies, grain procurement and the administrative control over food circulation from 1979 to 2006 in a bid to transfer a non-market economy to a market one, commonly known as the post-Mao reforms.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/home.aspx
Additional Information: © 2016 The Authors
Divisions: Economic History
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
JEL classification: N - Economic History > N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations > N15 - Asia including Middle East
N - Economic History > N4 - Government, War, Law, and Regulation > N45 - Asia including Middle East
N - Economic History > N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries > N55 - Asia including Middle East
P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P21 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P22 - Prices
P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P25 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics; Housing; Transportation
Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q11 - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2016 12:12
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 23:38
Funders: Universities’ China Committee in London
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/65369

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