William Hurst
Political scientist specializing in labor, law, and land in China and Indonesia; Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at the University of Cambridge and author of works on Chinese labor and legal regimes.
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Mar 3, 2026 • 1h 16min
The Cost of Managing From Above | William Hurst, Revisited
William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development at Cambridge who studies labor, law, and institutions in China and Indonesia. He examines why top-down rules and simplification break real work. Short takes on Seeing Like a State, how efficiency warps systems, fake compliance at work, local knowledge vs central control, and why coercive governance and distorted metrics cause harm.
