Meg Rithmire is the F. Warren MacFarlan associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on China’s political economy, including real estate, outbound investment, and government discipline of business and entrepreneurs. She earned a B.A. from Emory University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Rithmire is the author of Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (2015), and a forthcoming book titled Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia, which compares state-business relations in China, Malaysia, and Indonesia. What follows is a lightly edited Q&A.
Meg Rithmire.Illustration by Kate Copeland
Q: Let’s start with the real estate sector. Can you give an overview of what you have seen happen in the market in China over the past year or so?
A: Everyone has been asking, especially this time last fall: Is the real estate bubble about to burst? I was answering the same question in 2012, in 2011, and 2010. The cur
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