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The Chinese Birdcage: How China´s Rise Almost Toppled the West
Heleen Mees
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Description for The Chinese Birdcage: How China´s Rise Almost Toppled the West
Paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCF; KCL; KCS; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
This book vividly describes how China's rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping's policy of `reform and opening up' in the 1980s, China quickly became the world's factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the market economy would be trapped within the confines of a planned economy. With China's admission into the World Trade Organization in 2001, almost a billion people joined the global workforce, driving down the real wages of blue- and white-collar workers in the US and Europe ... Read more
This book vividly describes how China's rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping's policy of `reform and opening up' in the 1980s, China quickly became the world's factory floor...but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the market economy would be trapped within the confines of a planned economy. With China's admission into the World Trade Organization in 2001, almost a billion people joined the global workforce, driving down the real wages of blue- and white-collar workers in the US and Europe ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137588883
SKU
V9781137588883
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Heleen Mees
Heleen Mees was Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy. She is a columnist for the Dutch daily De Volkskrant and she writes opinion articles for various international publications including Foreign Policy, The Financial Times, Project Syndicate, and NRC Handelsblad.
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