Maximum tinkering under uncertainty: Unorthodox lessons from China

Modern China

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 450-462

  Heilmann, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic policy making; Experimentation; Ordoliberalism; Policy process; Shadow of hierarchy

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC POLICY; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67649653765     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: 15526836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0097700409335403     Document Type: Article

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