Meg Rithmire

James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration

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Meg Rithmire (任美格) is James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit of the Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her new book, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023), investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia, comparing China, Malaysia, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. Professor Rithmire examines how governments attempt to discipline business and, second, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her first book, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examines the role of land politics, urban governments, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries, especially the United States. 

Research Interests: contemporary Chinese politics; relationship between urban planning and post-1978 economic reforms.

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  • Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia. Oxford University Press, 2023.
  • Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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