Analysis
Economic theory
China lacks innovation? Take another look
​Until recently, the big myth about China's companies was their lack of innovation. That view is now being reassessed in a series of Western studies ...
Read More A damaging confusion in Western economics books
Economics textbooks, particularly when discussing Keynes, frequently contain an elementary economic confusion - it should be made explicit this is a confusion in the textbooks ...
Read More Why China won’t suffer a Western type financial crisis
Inaccurate articles sometimes appear claiming China faces a "severe debt crisis." Factually these are easily refuted. Changyong Rhee, the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department director, ...
Read More Deng Xiaoping & John Maynard Keynes
Introduction​The international importance of China’s economy is twofold. The first is practical - the scale of China’s economic growth, its global impact, and the consequences ...
Read More Europe’s crisis & the Euro – predicted in advance
IntroductionThe following article, published in September 1996, that is prior to the creation of the Euro, accurately predicted in advance from fundamental economic theory the ...
Read More China is right to maintain & tighten capital controls
​During 2017 China has been tightening its capital controls to prevent any export of capital from the country not required for legitimate business expansion - ...
Read More Why the economic reform succeeded in China & will fail in Russia and Eastern Europe
This article was written in April 1992 and originally published in Russian in September 1992 in Voprosy Economiki (Questions of Economics) in September 1992. The ...
Read More The most important book on economic growth to have appeared for many years
Vu Minh Khuong's The Dynamics of Economic Growth is the most important book on world economic growth to have appeared for many years. It is for that reason (full ...
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