From Marx and Mao to the Market

• The first book of its kind to analyze the economics and politics of the reforms in agriculture in more than 25 countries.
• Explains crucial differences between transitional countries which have occupied minds of policymakers for many years and which have important implications for developing countries.

Readership: Researchers, students and policy-makers

Johan F.M. Swinnen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Scott Rozelle, University of California, Davis

Preface
1: Introduction
The economics of agricultural transition
2: Patterns of transition
3: A model of agricultural transition
4: Policy reforms
5: The effects of the reforms
The political economy of agricultural transition
6: Basic determinants of reform strategies
7: Why did the Communist party reform in China, but not in the Soviet Union?
8: Determining the pace of market liberalization
9: The political economy of property rights reform and farm restructuring
Conclusions, lessons and new developments
10: Conclusions
11: Lessons of agricultural transition
12: The second decade of transition