Wu, F;
(2020)
The state acts through the market: “state entrepreneurialism” beyond varieties of urban entrepreneurialism.
Dialogues in Human Geography
, 10
(3)
pp. 326-329.
10.1177/2043820620921034.
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Abstract
This commentary reflects on varieties of urban entrepreneurialism and rethinks its application to China. I argue that the state is proactively using market instruments for more strategic and developmental objectives in China. Characterized by ‘planning centrality, market instruments’, state entrepreneurialism manifests a different state–market relation: the state acts through the market rather than just being market friendly. In the post-crisis West, it is claimed that urban entrepreneurialism mutates into a financialized value extraction machine. Similarly, state entrepreneurialism reveals the usefulness but also the limits of the concept of urban entrepreneurialism. State entrepreneurialism adds a new narrative to the current description of governance changes associated with financialization and market operations.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The state acts through the market: “state entrepreneurialism” beyond varieties of urban entrepreneurialism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2043820620921034 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620921034 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | China, financialization, state entrepreneurialism, urban development, urban entrepreneurialism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089632 |
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