Volume 17 of International Finance Review focuses on a variety of issues relating to the political economy of Chinese finance, including: the pattern of government ownership and control of Chinese firms; the role of government in corporate governance of industrial and financial firms; the...

In this age of international terrorism and international economic contagion, it is clear that globalization in its broadest sense - i.e., the breaking down of barriers - is often a double-edged sword. The world economy of the early twenty-first century offers substantial growth potential and...

Front Cover -- The Political Economy of Chinese Finance -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: An Overview and Conceptual Foundations -- Market Socialism with "Chinese Characteristics" -- Introduction -- Timeline of China's Economic Reform -- Confucianism, Socialism,...