February 7, 2007

China Task Force Meeting, New York City 2007

Conference, Meetings and Workshops
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States

This discussion served as a follow-up to our summer's meeting on "Institutional Design for China's Evolving Market Economy." Columbia University's Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) and Committee on Global Thought met in Manchester in a joint undertaking with Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the University of Manchester to discuss possibilities for the formation of a task force on China's institutional design.

Mentions:

China is now entering a critical phase in its move to a market economy, one that is distinctly Chinese. Ongoing debates, and discussions over the next few years, will have a major effect on the kind of market economy into which China will evolve. This provides a unique opportunity to think about differences in institutional arrangements and their consequences–and what would normally be an academic exercise could turn out to have enormous import for a quarter of the world’s population.

In February 2007, a core group discussed foundational issues, property rights, and competition law / intellectual property rights, and hope that the group will be able to identify lessons from China that are relevant for other developing countries.

We hope that the papers and commentaries that come out of this project will be published in Chinese and in English, as one in the Initiative for Policy Dialogue book series published by Oxford and Columbia University Presses.

Participants:

Patrick Bolton
Task Force Member
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business
Columbia University Business School
Zhiyuan Cui
Task Force Member
Professor, Public Policy and Management
Tsinghua University
Mo Ji
Task Force Member
PhD Candidate
Columbia University
David Kennedy
Task Force Chair
Professor
Harvard Law School

Benjamin Liebman
Task Force Member
Associate Professor
Columbia University School of Law
Justin Y. Lin
Task Force Member
Former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics
The World Bank
Curtis Milhaupt
Task Force Member
Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions
Columbia University School of Law
Akbar Noman
Task Force Member
Senior Policy Fellow
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)

Katharina Pistor
Task Force Member
Associate Professor, School of Law
Columbia University
Joseph Stiglitz
Task Force Chair
President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Lan Xue
Task Force Member
Dean of School of Public Policy and Management
Tsinghua University