ISID Speaker Series talk by Dr Lizhi Liu ARTS 160
From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
How do states build essential market institutions when political or technical barriers hinder the establishment of the rule of law? In From Click to Boom, Lizhi Liu suggests a digital solution: governments strategically outsourcing tasks of institutional development and enforcement to digital platforms-a process she calls "institutional outsourcing".聽Through original extensive surveys, interviews, 28 million聽proprietary data points, and a field experiment across three Chinese聽provinces, Liu illustrates how China's BOO-million-user e-commerce market emerged聽scratch and why this market has profoundly transformed the nations聽economy, politics, and society.
Lizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor at the McDonough School of Business and a faculty affiliate of Department of Government at聽Georgetown University. Her research focuses on political economy and emerging markets.