Getting food prices right: the state versus the market in reforming China, 1979–2006
本文研究中国渐进改革时期（1979-2006）国家重建食品市场的政策，分析定价、补贴和采购资金，发现食品产量波动主要由改革型国家的“看得见的手”单向导致。
This article examines the Chinese state's food-market-rebuilding policies during its gradual reforms (1979–2006). To this end, we analyse government policies regarding food pricing, subsidies and procurement funds, and construct a policy implementation data set. Our findings indicate that fluctuations in China's food output were unidirectionally caused by the “visible hand” of China's reformist state, which aimed to guide the economy away from an administration-planned economy towards a price-based market system.