According to conventional wisdom, rising corruption reduces economic growth. And yet, between 1978 and 2010, even as officials were looting state coffers, extorting bribes, raking in kickbacks, and scraping off rents at unprecedented rates, the Chinese economy grew at an average annual rate of 9 percent. In Double Paradox, Andrew Wedeman seeks to explain why the Chinese economy...(展开全部)

This book's analysis of economic growth in China from the late nineteenth century to the Pacific War challenges the common notion that the prewar decades were a time of stagnation or decline. Focusing on the modern sector--cotton textile factories, sail and steamship transport, and Western-style commercial banking--Rawski demonstrates that, in spite of extreme economic and poli...(展开全部)

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitiv...(展开全部)

This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes uses the province of Guizhou to examine the Chinese tourist industry as an exampl...(展开全部)

Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation's remarkable rate of growth. But what does the future hold? This meticulously researched book closely examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese economic system to discover where the nation may be headed and what the Chinese experience reveals about emerging market economies. The authors ...(展开全部)

This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government. Developing countries and those making a transition from socialism are particularly at risk, but corruption is a worldwide phenomenon. Corruption creates economic inefficiencies and inequities, but reforms are possible to reduce the material benefits from payoffs. Cor...(展开全部)

This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government. Developing countries and those making a transition from socialism are particularly at risk, but corruption is a worldwide phenomenon. Corruption creates economic inefficiencies and inequities, but reforms are possible to reduce the material benefits from payoffs. Cor...(展开全部)

The second edition of Corruption and Government updates Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 book to address emerging issues and to rethink old questions in light of new data. The book analyzes the research explosion that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of Transparency International, and the World Bank's decision to give anti-corruption policy a key place on its age...(展开全部)

苏珊·罗丝-阿克曼 耶鲁大学亨利·卢斯法哲学教授。罗丝-阿克曼曾在世界银行担任访问学者，并先后在美国行为科学高级研究中心、法国巴黎政治学院和德国柏林高等研究院担任研究员。罗丝-阿克曼以腐败问题研究闻名，她开创性地把腐败现象纳入经济学分析框架。此外，她还撰写或参与编辑了17本图书，并发表多篇研究论文。 邦妮·J.帕利夫卡 墨西哥蒙特雷科技大学助教。自2004年以来，她便在墨西哥蒙特雷科技大学以《腐败与政府》第1版为教材讲授有关腐败的课程。自2011年起，她受邀开始在耶鲁大学讲授同一课程。帕利夫卡博士在美国、墨西哥、危地马拉、圣基茨和尼维斯、法国举行的多次会议上发表与腐败主题相关的演讲。