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An Economic Profile Of Mainland China. Studies Prepared for the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States. (2 vols.) [xviii + 684 pp. $1.25.] - Mainland China In The World Economy. Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States. [248 pp. $.60.] [Both works—Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Christopher Howe
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The China Quarterly , Volume 32 , December 1967 , pp. 136 - 142
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References

1 Fully argued in Eckstein, Alexander, Communist China's Economic Growth and Foreign Trade (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966)Google Scholar

2 This is discussed in Jasny, Naum, Soviet Industrialization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), pp. 243–245Google Scholar .

3 Evidence which indicates that forces personnel may have high productivity is contained in an article in the Shanghai, Hsin Wen Pao, V, No. 4, 1957Google Scholar . (“This year's number of demobilised soldiers is much greater than the number of new soldiers.”)

4 A persuasive account of the Chinese Communist attitude to science appears in Pischel's, Enrica CollottiLa Rivoluzione Ininterrotta (Turin: Einaudi, 1962), pp. 87–92Google Scholar .

5 Leontief demonstrated that America appeared to specialise in the export of commodities which did not use resources in which the economy was comparatively well endowed, a conclusion which contradicted orthodox international trade theory.