他的書 Chinese Economic Development. Basically -
In 1963-78, China rapidly reduced the illiteracy rate, educational inequality and death rates. Girls' educational opportunities improved vastly: "the record of China's system of elementary education was exemplary for a poor country." Large-scale vaccination and better sanitation reduced deaths from infectious disease, especially in rural areas. No country has matched China's pace of death reduction in the post-war era.
Under Mao, the irrigated area grew, and large collective farms increased labour productivity, enabling big increases in double cropping. Chinese rural poverty fell by an extraordinary 200 million in the 1980s, when trade and foreign direct investment were tiny. As Amartya Sen wrote, "communism is good for poverty removal."
Bramall sums up, "Mao in his twilight years presided over a remarkable expansion of rural industrial capability - especially skills - which laid the foundation for the extraordinary growth of the 1980s and 1990s and hence provided the basis for rural China's ascent out of poverty. ... In a very real sense, Mao Zedong is the father of China's contemporary economic miracle."
In Part 5, Bramall argues that China's "leap into the arms of authoritarian capitalism is a mistake. ... the privatizations of the late 1990s were driven not by concerns about efficiency but by a desire on the part of local cadres to raise money very rapidly and enrich themselves in the process. A revenue-raising scheme was disguised as an efficiency-driven policy initiative." China is now one of the world's most unequal societies.
