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SUMMARY:Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China’s Banking Explosion
DESCRIPTION:Conventional wisdom holds that banking markets flourish where p
 roperty rights are secure\, the rule of law is strong\, and the state keep
 s its hands off. China has none of these. Yet over the past three decades\
 , the number of Chinese banks grew exponentially\, and competition became 
 fierce. Why? In Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China’s Banking E
 xplosion (Cornell University Press\, 2026)\, Adam Y. Liu argues that China
 ’s banking market grew not despite authoritarian rule but because of it.
  The banking sector\, he argues\, is a market of the state\, by the state\
 , and for the state. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork and an extensive arr
 ay of original data\, Liu uncovers the political logic of banking market d
 evelopment in China and authoritarian states more broadly and explores wha
 t this means for the future of China’s economy. Speaker: Adam Y. Liu is 
 an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, Natio
 nal University of Singapore. His research focuses on Chinese…\n\nhttps:/
 /localz.events/e/authoritarian-markets-the-politics-of-chinas-banking-expl
 osion-123190
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 nking-explosion-123190
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