Extralegal Governance
the social order of illegal markets in china
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- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2025
Summary
Risky Business: How China’s Illegal Markets Thrive
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 id…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009622172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 100962217X |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society |
| Author: | Peng Wang, Wanlin Lin |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Peng Wang
Peng Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption and Extralegal Protection (2017). His research interests include organized crime, illegal markets, corruption, economic sociology, bureaucracy, and governance.
Wanlin Lin is Associate Professor at the School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Her current research applies institutional economics, law and economics, and game theory to study informal property rights, illegal markets, knowledge governance in China, and interactions between formal and informal institutions.
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