From Marx and Mao to the Market
The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition
Swinnen, Johan F.M. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Rozelle, Scott University of California, Davis
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928891-5




8 Determining the Pace of Market Liberalization
doi:10.1093/0199288917.003.0008

Johan F. M. Swinnen
Abstract: This chapter explains why, when, and how transition countries liberalized their agricultural markets. It explains why China opted for a gradual liberalization, and why a much more radical approach was chosen in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Keywords: political economy, agricultural transition, liberalization, gradualism, radical liberalization,

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Full Book Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
Part I The Economics of Agricultural Transition
2 Patterns of Transition
3 A Model of Agricultural Transition
4 Policy Reforms
5 The Effects of the Reforms
Part II The Political Economy of Agricultural Transition
6 Basic Determinants of Reform Strategies
7 Why did the Communist Party Reform in China, but not in the Soviet Union?
8 Determining the Pace of Market Liberalization
9 The Political Economy of Property Rights Reform and Farm Restructuring
Part III Conclusions, Lessons, and New Developments
10 Conclusions
11 Lessons of Agricultural Transition
12 The Second Decade of Transition
Bibliography
Index
 
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