Great Leap Forward or Backward? Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster

Preprint

1 January 2001

preprint
Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.282526

Abstract

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China between 1959 and 1961, can be attributed

Keywords

INDUSTRIALIZATION
CENTRAL PLANNING
AGRICULTURAL CRISIS
GRAIN PROCUREMENT
WORK CAPACITY
RESOURCE DIVERSION
CHINA

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