Clément, Matthieu - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 6 (2012) 1, pp. 89-114
The purpose of this article is to investigate the socio-economic as well as the political, institutional, and ideological causes of the Chinese famine of 1959–1961. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the radical policies implemented as part of the Great Leap Forward resulted in...