Biographical note: BellStephen: Stephen Bell is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Queensland.FengHui: Hui Feng is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of Queensland.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations Used in Text -- Part One. Aims and Theoretical Context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Explaining Institutional Change: An Agents- in-Contexts Approach -- Part Two. The Institutional Rise of the PBC -- 3. The People's Bank in the Shadow of the Plan, 1978-92 -- 4....