From Marx and Mao to the Market: The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition

by Johan Swinnen, Scott Rozelle

Overview

Studying agrarian transition in more than 25 countries from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and East Asia, this book is the first effort to analyze the economics and politics of the reforms in agriculture by comparing the reform processes, their causes and their effects across this vast region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199288915
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2006
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.33(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Johan F.M. Swinnen is Professor of development economics and Director of the LICOS Center for Transition Economics at the University of Leuven (KUL) in Belgium, a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, and Coordinator of the European Network of Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Institutes (ENARPRI). He has been lead economist at the World Bank and an Economic Advisor at the European Commission. He has also acted as consultant and advisor to other international institutions including EBRD, OECD, FAO, and IFAD and many East European governments. Scott Rozelle is Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the University of California, Davis. Dr. Rozelle received his B.Sc. from UC, Berkely, M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Before moving to the University of California in 1998, he was an Assistant Professor in the Food Research Institute and Department of Economics at Stanford University. He is the U.C. Davis 2000 Chancellor Fellow and is the chair of the Board of Academic Advisors of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy.

Table of Contents

Preface1. IntroductionThe economics of agricultural transition2. Patterns of transition3. A model of agricultural transition4. Policy reforms5. The effects of the reformsThe political economy of agricultural transition6. Basic determinants of reform strategies7. Why did the Communist party reform in China, but not in the Soviet Union? 8. Determining the pace of market liberalization9. The political economy of property rights reform and farm restructuringConclusions, lessons and new developments10. Conclusions11. Lessons of agricultural transition12. The second decade of transition