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Extralegal governance : the social order of illegal markets in China / Peng Wang, Wanlin Lin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Peng (Assistant professor of criminology), Author.
- Lin, Wanlin, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
- Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black market--China.
- Black market.
- Black marketeers--Social aspects--China.
- Black marketeers.
- China--Social conditions.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Drawing on insights from sociology and new institutional economics, Extralegal Governance provides the first comprehensive account of China's illegal markets by applying a socio-economic approach. It considers social legitimacy and state repression in examining the nature of illegal markets. It examines how power dynamics and varying levels of punishment shape exchange relationships between buyers and sellers. It identifies context-specific risks and explains how private individuals and organizations address these risks by developing extralegal governance institutions to facilitate social cooperation across various illegal markets. Adopting a multiple-case study design to sample China's illegal markets, this book utilizes four cases - street vending, small-property-rights housing, corrupt exchanges, and online loan sharks - to examine how market participants foster cooperation and social order in illegal markets.
- Contents:
- Developing a socio-economic approach for analyzing the social order of illegal markets
- Unmasking China's illegal markets : research design and fieldwork
- Unlicensed street vending
- Small-property-right housing market
- Corrupt transactions
- The illegal online lending market.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-62216-1
- 1-009-62218-8
- 1-009-62215-3
- OCLC:
- 1552585646
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