Full Product Details
Author: John Knight (Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) ,
Sai Ding (Lecturer in Economics, Business School, University of Glasgow)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.664kg
ISBN: 9780199698691
ISBN 10: 0199698694
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 12 April 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.
Reviews
<br> The authors set themselves a formidable challenge: to explain why, how, and with what consequences China has achieved rapid economic growth in the reform period. The analysis presented in the book, the data work, and the incorporation of existing literature are impeccable throughout. The authors are highly conscious of the difficulty of making causal arguments and repeatedly point to association versus causal relationships. Each chapter is comprehensive and any potential imbalance toward modeling or econometric techniques is quickly addressed with an intuitive or empirical China section. The China economist will appreciate the comprehensive coverage, meticulously detailed work, elaborate incorporation of existing literature, and careful argumentation. All others, from students enrolled in a Chinese economy course to the general readership, will appreciate the accessibility of solid work on China's economic growth and its consequences. --Journal of Economic Literature<p><br>
`Although written principally for economic specialists, readers with more general interests in Chinas burgeoning economy will also find much to consider in this book.' Marc Lanteigne, International Affairs
Author Information
John Knight has conducted research on the Chinese economy for more than two decades, and has published many journal articles, including papers on income distribution, poverty, wages, migration, education, subjective well-being, and economic growth. His books on China include The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China and Towards a Labour Market in China (both with Lina Song and both published by OUP). The latter book received the Richard A. Lester Prize, awarded at Princeton University, for ""the outstanding book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations published in 2005."" He is a long-serving editor of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Sai Ding graduated from Nankai University and obtained her doctorate at Birmingham University before becoming a Research Fellow in Oxford, where she collaborated with John Knight on the research for this book. Her current research is on corporate investment and finance in China.
