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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299653703321

Autore

Du Jun

Titolo

Agricultural Transition in China [[electronic resource] ] : Domestic and International Perspectives on Technology and Institutional Change / / by Jun Du

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-76905-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 194 p. 25 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Economic History, , 2662-6497

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic history

Political economy

Asia—Economic conditions

Agricultural economics

Economic policy

Evolutionary economics

Economic History

International Political Economy

Asian Economics

Agricultural Economics

R & D/Technology Policy

Institutional/Evolutionary Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: A General Theory Review -- Chapter 2: Economic Thinking on Chinese Agriculture -- Chapter 3. State-Led Changes: Failures and Successes -- Chapter 4: Trend's in China's Grain Production -- Chapter 5: Agricultural Transition in Taiwan: Towards a Comparative Study with Mainland China -- Chapter 6: Agricultural Transition in Selected Asian Countries -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book extends current research on the political economy of modern China, with particular regard to agricultural development and its role in economic transition. It uses Neoclassical principles to re-interpret



agricultural growth and technological change under complex market institutions with empirical studies on China and selected East Asian economies. The text also questions how technological advances in China contribute to the Great Divergence debate. Through a comparative analysis of agricultural technical changes in the planting of rice paddies in Japan, Taiwan and China, Du finds that different market institutions and structures have given rise to considerable diversity of agricultural change between different economies in terms of the nature, timing and duration of technological transition. Such diversification has, in turn, affected the trajectories of agricultural and wider economic growth. Here, Du reflects on the nature of contemporary Chinese economic development and extends observations on agricultural transition to the entirety of Asia, finding that the nature, timing, and time-span of agriculture technology transitions have varied considerably across different economies. Jun Du is a visiting research fellow of the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. She holds a PhD from University of London, UK, specialising in institutional and agricultural economics with an application to China and other East Asian countries. Her research interests include induced innovation in agriculture and Chinese agricultural economic history.