Is There a Methodological Challenge in China's Political Economy?

Amitai Etzioni: It does seem to me increasingly challenging to distinguish between state-owned and private enterprises in China. How should we treat an SOE or even a private, you know, quote unquote privately owned company? He says the ability to tell ex ante whether a company is going to do something based on whether it's state or private is nearly impossible. Etzionis: In other work that I'm doing, if I can just plug my other co-authors, Meg Rithmeyer of Harvard Business School in Kelly Sei from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,. We've been writing a lot about what we call the blurred lines between state and