Feb 27, 2025–Feb 27, 2025 from 5:00pm–6:00pm
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule of law, contract enforcement and loan access. In the book “From Click to Boom,” Lizhi Liu examines a digital solution: governments strategically outsourcing tasks of institutional development and enforcement to digital platforms — a process she calls “institutional outsourcing.”
In just two decades, China built a two-trillion-dollar e-commerce market, with 800 million users, 70 million jobs, and nearly 50% of global online retail sales. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this market boom occurred because of weak government institutions, not despite them. Gaps in government institutions compelled e-commerce platforms to build powerful private institutions for contract enforcement, fraud detection and dispute resolution. For a surprisingly long period, the authoritarian government acquiesced, endorsed and even partnered with this private institutional building, despite its disruptive nature.
Speaker:
Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
Moderator:
Margaret Roberts, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego
This public lecture series is organized by the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). For more information on China activities, please visit china.ucsd.edu.
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Feb 27, 2025–Feb 27, 2025
from 5:00pm–6:00pm
Robinson Building 3, classroom 3202
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