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Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2021

Yun-chien Chang
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , May 2022 , pp. 727 - 733
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation

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Weitseng Chen and Frank Upham provided helpful comments. Patrick Huang, Hsin-yi Han, and Ming-hsi Chu provided helpful research assistance. Academia Sinica Career Development Award 106-H02 provided funding for this review.

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