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Faced with such a hostile environment, Chinese private entrepreneurs have been forced to engage in “institutional arbitrage” – taking advantage of efficient Western economic institutions to expand their business (most export-oriented businesses are owned by private entrepreneurs and foreign firms).

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For instance, imagine that in 1900, you owned 100 acres of land someplace in the Midwest.

Part of my work now is really laying the groundwork to integrate urban ag and rural food systems to hasten the demise of the 3,000-mile salad by creating a national brand of urban-grown produce in every city, that uses regional growing power and augments it with indoor growing facilities, owned and operated by small growers, where now there are only consumers.

And then he describes the home he owned in their village.

He had just signed the contract to sell his New York apartment at a six-figure profit, and he'd only owned it for five years.

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