China’s Challenge: Expanding the Market, Limiting the State

Dorn James A. ()
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Dorn James A.: Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., USA

Man and the Economy, 2016, vol. 3, issue 1, 23-41

Abstract: China has made significant progress since 1978 in expanding the market, but that progress is threatened by the failure to limit the state. The critical challenge facing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its leadership is to widen the range of choices open to individuals by promoting what Milton Friedman, in his 1988 memorandum to General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, called “free private markets.” Free markets require well-defined private property rights protected by a just rule of law. China has a robust private sector and private property rights are now recognized by law, but the state sector and state ownership continue to play a strong role in directing economic life.

Keywords: China; market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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