Beyond Private Property Versus Public Property
(2022)
Digital Artefact
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. (2022). Beyond Private Property Versus Public Property. [Blog post]
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/S1744137421000746This 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. (2021). The Governance of COVID-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State. Cambridge, UKWe 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.
The Governance of Covid-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State (2020)
Journal Article
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. (2020). The Governance of Covid-19: Anthropogenic Risk, Evolutionary Learning, and the Future of the Social State. Industrial Law Journal, 49(4), 539-594. https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwaa027
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.2019.83.3.300The 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.
Post-capitalist property (2017)
Journal Article
Ireland, P., & Meng, G. (2017). Post-capitalist property. Economy and Society, 46(3/4), 369-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2017.1389121When writing about property and property rights in his imagined post-capitalist society of the future, Marx seemed to envisage ‘individual property’ co-existing with ‘socialized property’ in the means of production. As the social and political conseq... Read More about Post-capitalist property.
Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership (2016)
Journal Article
Meng, G. (2016). Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership. Journal of Economic Issues, 50(3), 667-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2016.1210377This article analyses the property rights that Chinese peasants have under the present Household Responsibility System (HRS) using Antony M. Honoré’s work on ownership, especially his analysis of eleven standard incidents of the full liberal concept... Read More about Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.