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12 - Property Rights and Factor Markets

from Part II - 1000 to 1800

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2022

By
Mio Kishimoto
Edited by
Debin Ma  and
Richard von Glahn
Debin Ma
Affiliation:
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Richard von Glahn
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Summary

Since the late nineteenth century, some scholars have emphasized the free character of the traditional Chinese economy, while others have regarded it as a feudal or Asiatic one that prevented the development of a market economy. The question of property rights and factor markets, which are the themes of this chapter, is closely related to this subject. The first section of this chapter will give a brief survey of the institutions governing the markets for land, labor, and capital from the perspective of law and policy. In the second section, several concrete illustrations will be presented to describe the functioning of factor markets in the Song–Qing economy. In the last section, an outline of the short-, middle-, and long-term changes that occurred in factor markets will be described.

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property rightsfactor marketsland salestaxationlabor marketcapital marketeconomic cycles
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The Cambridge Economic History of China , pp. 448 - 483
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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