Epilogue: Collective goods for collective futures

The case studies contained in this volume underline the point that an array of customs, ideologies, organisational forms, strategic and economic interests, political alliances and social relations influence the provision of collective goods. Moreover, the decision to produce goods collectively, as opposed to publicly or privately, is always open to contestation, even in inter-state interactions and authoritarian societies in which there are significant disparities of power, resources and capacity. Our case studies also show that collective goods provision frequently has a greater impact than originally intended. It overturns old ideational, regulatory, organisational productive and redistributive systems; distinguishes new groups of beneficiaries from non-beneficiaries; and precipitates collective actions at various levels of geo-political scale

Subduing “The Rural House-building Craze”: Attitudes towards housing construction and land use controls in four Zhejiang villages

Why do villagers in China's most densely populated and productive agricultural regions use scarce farmland to construct housing? And why has the Chinese government, which has legislated to conserve arable land so as to ensure national food security, been unable to control housing construction in the countryside? Previous studies of the factors motivating the rural housing boom tend to explain this either as a reaction against insecure property rights in land and a speculative response to emergent market opportunities, or as a social mobility tactic. This paper presents interview and survey data from four villages in Zhejiang province that show that property rights in land do not affect villagers' housing construction and market incentives play only a minor role in propelling house-building. The social and demographic aspirations of families and the reconfiguration of rural households' economic activities are major stimuli of “the rural house-building craze.

Collective Goods: Collective Futures in East and Southeast Asia

This edited collection explores issues surrounding the provision of collective goods within the context of post-crisis East and Southeast Asia. It includes case studies on Korea, Indonesia, China, Laos, Malaysia and Singapore among others

Cobalt cage complexes with N3S3 donor sets and differing cavity sizes: a novel macrobicyclic cage with a contracted cap

Treatment of the cobalt(III) complex of the hexadentate tripodal N3N3 ligand ten (4,4′,4″-ethylidynetris(3-thiabutan1-amine) with propanal and paraformaldehyde under basic conditions, followed by borohydride reduction and reoxidation of the metal cen