Transfer of Government Power (Special Logic of Chinese Economy and Civilization)

Author: Wang Maolin, Dou Xiusheng
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This is the first monograph in both Chinese and foreign academia to reveal the essence of China's reform and opening-up as a transfer of government power in the history of economic civilization, and it is also a systematic work describing the curve of government power's influence on China over thousands of years. The book tightly grasps the main thread of the shift of government power, analyzing the chaotic and complex historical and real-world events to reveal the special logic of China's economic civilization development, the causes behind the imperial cycle rate in agricultural civilization, the fundamental problem that led China from prosperity to decline, the empire's choice of the path to industrialization, and the inevitability of the reform and opening-up in mainland China—the transfer of government power. Government power and market power are important forces promoting the development of modern economic civilization, and government power was once far stronger than market power. In the period of agricultural civilization, government power played an absolutely equal role. There are many reasons for the transfer of government power, but ultimately, it is still the pursuit of resource utilization efficiency that drives it. Because the government handles everything and leads everything, it will inevitably lead to a loss of progress, making it impossible to achieve the maximization of resource utilization efficiency. From the perspective of human survival, continuity, and development, this book systematically discusses major issues such as the relationship between government power and economic freedom, the economic system of the privileged class, the special path dependency of industrialization in agricultural civilization countries, and the future of China's economic civilization with the transfer of government power.