The Transition that Worked: Origins, Mechanism, and Consequences of China's Long Boom

本提案寻求初步支持，以制定一个全面详细的研讨会/研讨会提案，讨论一个理论上非常有趣（也有争议）的问题，即当代中国的制度背景如何在过去几十年里促进了强劲的经济发展，尽管传统理论认为这是“失败的秘诀”。当代中国无疑正在缓慢地走向更加以市场为中心的经济，显然，尽管缺乏对私有财产和自由的完善保障，缺乏可靠的金融市场和所有权保障，以及独立的司法（以及其他因素）。与此同时，关于经济发展、技术转让和商业化、国际战略联盟和其他主题的越来越多的工作创造了一个相关的背景，在这个背景下，熟悉中国经验和可以获得的数据的学者们呼吁整合。建议为探索性研究提供小额赠款，以促进资金的发展，以支持对有利于经济发展的体制背景的既定主题采取新的方法；利用目前居住在北美和中国的中国学者以及熟悉中国发展背景的知名美国学者的存在；最重要的是，在一个特别合适的时机，推动围绕这一重要问题的讨论，探索中国融入新兴全球经济的潜力。预期PI随后将在由目前的特别调查小组资助的初步调查的基础上提出一份完整的建议。

This proposal seeks preliminary support for development of a fully detailed workshop/symposium proposal on the highly theoretically interesting (and contested) question of how the institutional context of contemporary China has fostered robust economic development over the past several decades despite what traditional theory would suggest is "a recipe for failure." Contemporary China is certainly moving slowly toward a more market-centered economy, apparently despite the absence of well-established guarantees of private property and freedom, of reliable financial markets and ownership guarantees and an independent judiciary (among other factors). Meanwhile, a growing body of work on economic development, technology transfer and commercialization, international strategic alliances and other topics creates a relevant backdrop against which scholars conversant with the Chinese experience and with such data as can be accessed, cries out for integration.This Small Grant for Exploratory Research is recommended to facilitate the development of funding to support new approaches to the established topics of institutional contexts favoring economic development; to take advantage of the availability of the presence of Chinese scholars now resident in North America as well as in China and of well-established U.S. scholars familiar with the Chinese development context; and most particularly to catalyze discussion around this important issue at an especially opportune time, exploring the potential for integrating China into the emerging global economy. It is anticipated that the PI will submit a full proposal subsequently, building on the initial inquiries funded by the present SGER.