Overview
This book argues that the right ideas matter in order to guide China's future reform
Unpacks the competing factions within China's economy today
Considers the role of the common people in affecting long term social transformation
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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The Market and Cooperation
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Entrepreneurship and the Rule of Law
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Ideas and Leadership in Reform
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“Weiying Zhang is a top innovative and independent thinker in China. In this book, he addresses some fundamental issues about China’s future reforms, particularly whether a nondemocratic political system can be compatible with a free market economy? The ideas established in this book will benefit not only people in China, but also people all over the world.” (Yushi Mao, the 2012 winner of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, and the founder of the Beijing Unirule Institute)
"Weiying Zhang is one of China's leading reform economists. In Ideas for China's Future he combines granular analysis of China's current economic and political situation with a deep dive into classic political thought. He argues persuasively that, for a better future, China urgently needs a 'market of ideas'." (Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, Oxford University & Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
“Weiying Zhang is market liberalism’s most brilliant intellectual advocate in China. His eloquent and persuasive book reveals the flaws in current policies and lays out an alternative path for future economic and political reformers.” (Susan L. Shirk, Research Professor and Chair 21st Century China Center School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC-San Diego)
“In the stimulating and very readable essays in this book, Weiying Zhang blends the insights of Coase, Friedman and Hayek with those of Chinese scholars thousands of years earlier. He pours both praise and criticism on his own discipline, economics. The praise is for the contribution of economists to the reforms that enabled China’s astonishing recent growth. The criticism is for the failure of many economists – and China’s current leaders – to recognise that ultimately a market economy can flourish and progress only in an institutional framework that constrains government and liberates thinkers.” (Adrian Wood, Emeritus Professor of International Development, Oxford University)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ideas for China’s Future
Authors: Weiying Zhang
Translated by: Matthew J. Dale
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4304-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4303-6Published: 14 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4306-7Published: 14 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4304-3Published: 13 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 275
Topics: Asian Politics, Asian Economics, Globalization