Harrison, Mark (2014) Communism and economic modernization. In: Smith, Stephen A., (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 387-406. ISBN 9780199602056

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Abstract

The paper examines the range of national experiences of communist rule in terms of the aspiration to ‘overtake and outstrip the advanced countries economically’. It reviews the causal beliefs of the rulers, the rise and fall of their economies (or, in the case of China, its continued rise), the core institutions of communist rule and their evolution, and other outcomes. The process of overcoming a development lag so as to approach the global technological frontier has required continual institutional change and policy reform in the face of resistance from established interests. So far, China is the only country where communist rule has been able to meet this requirement, enabled by a new deal with political and economic stakeholders. The paper places the “China Deal” on a spectrum previously limited to the Soviet Big and Little Deals.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D880 Developing Countries H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:	Oxford
ISBN:	9780199602056
Book Title:	The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Editor:	Smith, Stephen A.
Official Date:	January 2014
Dates:	Date Event January 2014 Published May 2013 Available
Number of Pages:	20
Page Range:	pp. 387-406
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Related URLs:	http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2716...

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