Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Part I The political economy of state socialism -- Chapter 1 The system of state socialism -- Chapter 2 The successes and failures of central planning -- Chapter 3 From reform to breakdown -- Part II Macro-economic transformations: From shock to...

"This revised and updated edition sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre-reform and post-reform periods and through national, regional and local dimensions"--P. [4] of cover