Institutional Genes by Chenggang Xu

Institutional Genes by Chenggang Xu

This book offers insights into China's political, economic, and historical journey under communism. It introduces 'institutional genes' as a conceptual framework to organize a coherent historical narrative on the origins, evolution, behaviours, and impacts of China's institutions and those of totalitarian regimes at large.

Chenggang Xu is Senior Research Scholar at Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, a board member of the Ronald Coase Institute, and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He was the Chung Hon-Dak Professor of Economics at the University of Hong Kong, Special-Term Professor at Tsinghua University, the World-Class University Professor at Seoul National University, and Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. He also served as President of the Asian Law and Economics Association. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1991. Chenggang Xu was a recipient of the 2013 Sun Yefang Prize and the 2016 Chinese Economics Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781108841696
ISBN 10	1108841694
Title	Institutional Genes
Author	Chenggang Xu
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2025-03-31
Number of pages	818
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