Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make … a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the … areas from reforms that decrease it. We study separately how social trust, interacted with the different types of political …

This paper investigates the long first decade of reform in China (1978-1992) to show that Mises, in particular his … initiating contribution to the Socialist Calculation Debate, became relevant to the reconfiguration of China's political economy … official designation of China's economic system to this day. …