This paper applies a systems-oriented, "holistic" approach to China's radical economic reforms during the last quarter of a century. It characterizes China's economic reforms in terms of a multidimensional classification of economic systems. When looking at the economic consequences of China's...

I discuss the nature of the economic reforms in China during the last quarter of a century in the context of a typology of economic systems, emphasizing the interaction between economic and social mechanisms. I also consider China's options for further reforms. I focus on economic reforms that...

This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...