From Marx and Mao to the Market

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.

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.

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