Chinese Economists on Economic Reform – Collected Works of Ma Hong – Hardback Cheap Sale Purchase

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the innavidual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, unlike many other books on China’s economic reform which are written by outside observers. Ma Hong (1920-2007) was one of the leading advocates for China’s market-oriented reforms, one of the earliest scholars to adopt the concept of “a socialist market economy”. Politically active from the 1930s, when he campaigned against the Japanese occupation, he held many important posts, notably President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the 1980s. He was particularly influential in the field of industrial economics, putting to use his own experiences of managing industrial enterprises, and a strong advocate of the need for China’s economic development to be stable.The book is published in association withChina Development Research Foundation<, one of the leading economic and social think tanks in China, where many of the theoretical foundations and policy details of economic reform were formulated.