The 2008 economic crash led to remarkable shifts of opinion among world leaders. Does this crisis create favourable conditions for the reform and revitalisation of economics itself-from a subject dominated by mathematical techniques to a discipline more oriented to understanding real-world...

1. A debate on the relationship between planning and the market (1991) -- 2. "Futures" in China : theory, policy, and systems (February 20, 1994) -- 3. On making China's system of circulation more market-oriented, and on creating institutions to handle the market (1995) -- 4. The role,...

1. The rise of township-and-village enterprises and changes in national economic patterns (1985) -- 2. The key to economic development in rural areas is the correct treatment of farmers (1990) -- 3. New problems facing rural reform and development in the 1990s (1992) -- 4. Bringing about a...

1. A major issue in reforming the 'leadership system' of enterprises : a reexamination of the concept of having 'one boss' -- 2. The need to institutionalize successful experience of reform -- 3. Surveys relating to land reallocation and the extending of land-use contracts in rural Jiangmen,...

In the context of wide regional disparities emerging in the process of development, the banks have an additional responsibility in India. That responsibility is to enter the under developed regions and to mobilize and channelize resources into local economic activities such that local...

The coexistence of a predominantly poor opinion of free markets and lack of education in economics are two documented features of France. In this paper, we use data collected through an Internet-based survey conducted in December 2009 in order to test whether this situation is more than a mere...

China has experienced extraordinary institutional and socio-economic changes after 1978, and its deepening reform to market-oriented economy since 1990s was also recognized as one the most significant factors to drive China's rise in the contemporary world. Although many aspects of China's...

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