Double Paradox Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China

Name: Double Paradox Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China
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ISBN: 9780801477768

ISBN-10: 080147776X

ISBN-13: 9780801477768

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrew H. Wedeman

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According to conventional wisdom, rising corruption reduces economic growth. And yet, between 1978 and 2010, even as officials were looting state coffers, extorting bribes, raking in kickbacks, and scraping off rents at unprecedented rates, the Chinese economy grew at an average annual rate of 9 percent. In Double Paradox, Andrew Wedeman seeks to explain why the Chinese economy performed so well despite widespread corruption at almost kleptocratic levels.Wedeman finds that the Chinese economy was able to survive predatory corruption because corruption did not explode until after economic reforms had unleashed dynamic growth. To a considerable extent corruption was also a by-product of the…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



A Double Paradox



Developmental Corruption



Degenerative Corruption



Sequencing and Corruption



Systemic Transition and Corruption



Anticorruption and Corruption



Controlling Corruption and Sustaining Rapid Growth


Notes


Index