The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx's Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré's Concept of Ownership

Meng, Gaofeng

doi:10.1521/siso.2019.83.3.300

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“…The third change, in 1979, was decollectivization and the establishment of the HRS under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. The essence of the HRS is that it returned a series of use rights to peasant households but preserved the communal possession of land and redistributive rights in the hands of the collective (Lin, 1990; Meng, 2019).…”

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Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system

Meng

Deakin

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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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, has stimulated spectacular economic growth and poverty reduction; however, it is based on a type of ownership which is far removed from the property rights regime which North regarded as essential. Two features of the HRS merit attention. The first is ‘split ownership’: this refers to the allocation of different aspects of ownership, including rights of access, use, management, exclusion and alienation, to a range of individual and collective actors with interests in the land in question. The second is polycentric governance: rules governing land use are derived in part from community-level action and in part from state intervention. We argue that in explaining the functioning of the HRS we need to move beyond the narrow conception of legally enforced private property rights on which North relied. We should instead embrace understandings of ownership as an emergent, diverse and complex institution, of the kind emphasized by A.M. Honoré's legal theory of ownership and Elinor Ostrom's theories of the common-pool resource and polycentric governance.

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“…The HRS solves one set of problems, arising from the absence of property rights under the Commune System, leading to free-riding and under-production (Ireland and Meng, 2017; Meng, 2019). However, the HRS is not free of difficulties.…”

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Meng

Deakin

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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“…¿Qué elementos de las relaciones de propiedad «no necesariamente capitalistas» podrían encontrarse en China que podrían informar futuras transiciones? Ireland y Meng (2017) han argumentado que el sector rural muestra una forma híbrida de derechos de propiedad que es consisten-te con las delineaciones de Marx para las relaciones de propiedad poscapitalistas (véase también Meng, 2019). Argumentan que para Marx, las sociedades poscapitalistas abolirían la propiedad privada capitalista, pero que otra propiedad privada individual (no capitalista) podría coexistir con formas colectivas y también «dentro de las estructuras de derechos de propiedad a través de una fragmentación del paquete de derechos de propiedad» (Ireland y Meng, 2017:372, énfasis en original).…”

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Alternativas de desarrollo: viejos desafíos y nuevas hibridaciones en China y América Latina

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Veltmeyer²

2019

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In the current, dominant conceptualisation of International Development Studies, «development» is based on the emancipation from poverty for the more than one-billion people who are unable to satisfy their basic human needs, in a world that has never been richer in material terms. Critical development studies attempts to understand why the many projects of development that have been implemented have not led to the stated emancipatory goal after five decades of multiple initiatives and resources, and propose alternatives to the conventional model. To that end, this article examines and theorizes the dynamic of capitalist system's development project; offers tools for the analysis of States, societies and communities which have attempted to create better living conditions and defy orthodox models; outline the resistance to capitalism and the search for alternatives in the peripheries; conceptualize peripheral capitalist subdevelopment or development and post-capitalism or post-development from a perspective of unequal development; reveal the failure of dominant economic development theory and policy that is unable to understand or ignores the underlying dynamic of capitalist development. Consequently, the article proposes going beyond capitalism with the forces of progressive change, oriented toward an alternative development. It analyzes case studies in China and Latin America, where a series of hybridizations are identified that could offer lessons for how to create alternatives to capitalism.

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“…The first kind of critique concentrates on the undesirable outcomes of market-oriented policies, mainly in terms of the intensification of socioeconomic inequalities and environmental degradation [1][2][3]. By comparison, the second group of scholars employ typically a Habermasian ideologiekritik approach to marketization, challenging its epistemological obsession with the market-state nexus, alongside its oversight of the grassroots [4][5][6].…”

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Why Do Farmers Support Stable Land Ownership? Marketization with Chinese Characteristics

Zhang

Wang

2023

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Recent debates regarding marketization have focused on the relationship between the state and the market, while the grassroots and their everyday experiences have arguably been understudied. In this paper, we study marketization with the example of land marketization in China. Out of concern for the grassroots’ perspective, we investigate Chinese farmers’ perceptions with regard to stable land ownership of farmland, which are essential for land marketization in the backdrop of intensive land use conversion in China’s urban periphery. Approximately 1200 farmer households were interviewed around 12 cities in mainland China. An ordered probit regression analysis of the survey results reveals a series of factors that explain the individual farmers’ preference for stable land ownership. Among others, the decreasing size of farmer household and rural women’s insecure property rights in farmland are identified as two grassroots-based characteristics underpinning China’s ongoing transition to a more market-based farmland use institution. An important theoretical implication of our research is that the mainstream literature perhaps over-attributes China’s marketization to the state and the market, while under-evaluating the spontaneous support from bottom-up.

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The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx's Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré's Concept of Ownership

Abstract: * I am very grateful for the thought-provoking comments and useful criticisms from four referees of Science & Society, and to David Laibman for his helpful suggestions and encouragement. David McLellan's consistent support over the past ten years is highly appreciated.

Cited by 7 publications

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Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system

Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system

Alternativas de desarrollo: viejos desafíos y nuevas hibridaciones en China y América Latina

Why Do Farmers Support Stable Land Ownership? Marketization with Chinese Characteristics

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