uncanny parallels, revisited

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jan 24 21:45:32 PST 2000



>Fanshen is a wonderful book and William Hinton is a great man too. I

It is hard to reconcile Fanshen--or, perhaps, the representativeness of the story told therein-- with what we believe to be the case after the death of Mao. We think that the dismantling of the communes in th elate 1970s was followed by a near-doubling of peasant standards of living in China...

Brad DeLong



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