This book is a comprehensive analysis of China's economic history. It provides an essential background to the study of China's struggle for growth and development, with insights into the concept of underdevelopment and theories of transitional economics.

Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. These factors include: * resource endowments * socio-economic structure * property rights * state and bureaucracy * ideology and values * geo-political environment * inter...(展开全部)

The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both...(展开全部)

The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both...(展开全部)

This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. T...(展开全部)

This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. T...(展开全部)

Long periods of high unemployment have dogged the United States and Western Europe since the early 1970s and most of the well-developed members of the global economy are in another such period now. Dissatisfied with the explanations put forth by the Keynesian, monetarist, New Keynesian and neoclassical schools, Edmund Phelps has constructed a new series of models that account f...(展开全部)

埃德蒙德·菲尔普斯（Edmund S. Phelps, 1933 -） 2006年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者 菲尔普斯教授最重要的贡献在于经济增长理论。他对经济增长的动态最优化路径进行了分析，提出了著名的“经济增长黄金律”，从而正式确立了经济增长理论。因此，他被誉为“现代宏观经济学的缔造者”和“影响经济学进程最重要的人物”之一。 1933年夏天他出生于美国芝加哥，当时美国正处于大萧条谷底，他父母都失去了工作。当时也正是凯恩斯主义形成的时期，凯恩斯主义的政策含义——通过政府干预来拯救经济萧条成为最流行的做法。 1951年，菲尔普斯进入安默斯特学院读大学。在大学第一年里，他按照自己的爱好选择了文学，每天读希腊史诗、古代戏剧等。他迷恋上了柏拉图、休谟等人，对哲学产生了浓厚的兴趣。到大学二年级，在学经济出身的父亲和学家政管理出身的母亲的影响下，他才选修了一门经济学...(展开全部)

China was the largest and one of the most advanced economies in the world before the eighteenth century, yet declined precipitately thereafter and degenerated into one of the world's poorest economies by the late nineteenth century. Despite generations' efforts for national rejuvenation, China did not reverse its fate until it introduced market-oriented reforms in 1979. Since t...(展开全部)

China was the largest and one of the most advanced economies in the world before the eighteenth century, yet declined precipitately thereafter and degenerated into one of the world's poorest economies by the late nineteenth century. Despite generations' efforts for national rejuvenation, China did not reverse its fate until it introduced market-oriented reforms in 1979. Since t...(展开全部)