There is little doubt that in terms of speed and scale, China's economic transformation is
without parallel in the past. Never has the world seen a major economic power emerge in …

The purpose of this volume as laid out in Chapters 1 and 2 is to apply the capitalist lens to
China's emergent political economy and thereby create a comparatively accurate …

With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world's second largest economy, China is a
major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about …

1 One of the most distinctive features of the economic changes in China over the last decade
was the expansion of the private sector. Whereas the economic expansion of the 1980s was …

The purpose of this volume as laid out in Chapters 1 and 2 is to apply the capitalist lens to
China's emergent political economy and thereby create a comparatively accurate …

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Page 1 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Tommy H. Clausen Centre for
Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway Gosta Esping-Andersen …