Alexander Eckstein
University of Michigan
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The Journal of Economic History | 1974
Alexander Eckstein; Kang Chao; John Chang
The paper we are presenting here is in essence an interim research report, a summary and preliminary analysis of findings based on a larger study still under way. Thus both the findings and the interpretations are subject to revision as we continue and complete our investigation.
Economic Development and Cultural Change | 1962
Karl W. Deutsch; Chester I. Bliss; Alexander Eckstein
What are the main influences on the share of international transactions in the total ensemble of economic activities of a country? Do national economies become more international in the course of time or of economic development? Do their international sectors grow or decline, relative to the rest, with the size of states, or with the growth of population, or with the increase of literacy, with the growth of per capita income, or with the shift from colonial status to national independence ? Or is the opposite the case ? Or do these conditions seem to have no appreciable effects on the relative share of foreign trade among the total economic activities in a country?
The Journal of Asian Studies | 1981
Susan Mann Jones; Thomas G. Rawski; Ramon H. Myers; Alexander Eckstein; Christopher Howe
Four recent studies of the modern Chinese economy show how the disciplines of economics and history have produced different judgments about the economic changes of the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. These differences are overridden, however, by shared disciplinary concerns with problems of inequality and the growth of the modern state. Economists have demonstrated statistically that regional variations (particularly urban-rural differences), coupled with the size of the Chinese polity, continue to pose many of the same administrative problems for the modern state that they posed during the late empire and in turn have produced some similar strategies for ruling. These enduring problems are located squarely in the order of production in Chinas agrarian peasant communities and in the logistical problems of distributing what is produced there through an integrated political and economic system.
The Economic Journal | 1978
T. J. Byres; Alexander Eckstein
Professor Ecksteins book is a study of Chinas efforts to achieve rapid modernization of its economy within a socialist framework. Eckstein begins with an examination of economic development in pre-Communist China, specifically focusing on the resources and liabilities inherited by the new regime in 1949 and their effects on development policies. He then analyses the economic objectives of the Communist leadership - narrowing income disparities, maintaining full employment without inflation, and achieving rapid industrialization - and argues that the implementation of these goals required a potent ideology capable of providing a strong faith and motivational force for the mass mobilization of resources. In discussing the methods used by the government to achieve its aims, Eckstein makes a thorough evaluation of Chinas general framework for economic planning, particularly in regard to the distribution and pricing of farm products and the allocation of resources in the industrial sector. The author also evaluates the radical institutional changes in property relations and in economic organization in the Peoples Republic of China.
Archive | 1977
Alexander Eckstein
Economic trends in Communist China. | 1968
Alexander Eckstein; Walter Galenson; Ta-Chung Liu
Economic Development and Cultural Change | 1960
John King Fairbank; Alexander Eckstein; L. S. Yang
Archive | 1966
Dwight H. Perkins; Alexander Eckstein
Archive | 1979
Alexander Eckstein
Population and Development Review | 1976
Alexander Eckstein