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Introduction of the Household Responsibility System in Contemporary China (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Meng, G. Introduction of the Household Responsibility System in Contemporary China. London

This article contributes to the debate regarding the origin of the Household Responsibility System (HRS) in rural China. We argue that the HRS is a social and political construction which is not merely a response to underlying economic forces. Its ev... Read More about Introduction of the Household Responsibility System in Contemporary China.

Professionalism, Leadership and Innovation in Countering the Covid-19 Pandemic: Case Studies of Four Chinese Doctors (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Meng, G. Professionalism, Leadership and Innovation in Countering the Covid-19 Pandemic: Case Studies of Four Chinese Doctors. London

This article aims to contribute to literature on leadership and leadership development through reviewing China’s early response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article, we argue that leadership, professionalism and innovation have been essential in... Read More about Professionalism, Leadership and Innovation in Countering the Covid-19 Pandemic: Case Studies of Four Chinese Doctors.

Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system (2021)
Journal Article
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. (2022). Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system. Journal of Institutional Economics, 18(4), 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137421000746

This paper considers Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system (HRS) and offers a possible solution. China's HRS, which has evolved over the past four decades to become its dominant form of rural land ownership,... Read More about Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system.

The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State. Cambridge, UK

We consider the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for the theory and practice of governance. We define ‘governance’ as the process through which, in the case of a given entity or polity, resources are allocated, decisions made and policies implemen... Read More about The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State.

Re-learn how to govern risk (2021)
Digital Artefact
Meng, G., & Deakin, S. (2021). Re-learn how to govern risk

Re-learning how to manage risk can be a template for the future governance of anthropogenic crises, of which COVID-19 is likely just the harbinger.

The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership (2019)
Journal Article
Meng, G. (2019). The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership. Science & society (New York, N.Y. 1936), 83(3), 300-326. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.3.300

The Household Responsibility System (HRS) has improved agricultural productivity and promoted economic growth and thus relieved poverty in the rural population of China. However, the prevailing assumptions about its nature are that it was the result... Read More about The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.