Book Launch: How China Escaped Shock Therapy

UMASS Amherst Political Economy Workshop

Launch of Isabella Weber's new book HOW CHINA ESCAPED SHOCK THERAPY with comments by James Galbraith, Branko Milanović and Bin Wong.

How China Escaped Shock Therapy: China has become deeply integrated into the world economy, but the country’s swift ascent in recent decades was never a forgone conclusion. Reformers after Mao’s death in 1976 agreed that it was necessary for China to overhaul the economic system and move towards more market, but struggled over the right approach. Isabella Weber’s new book How China Escaped Shock Therapy uncovers the fierce reform debate that shaped China’s path. Through extensive research, Weber provides an unprecedented look at the economics that facilitated the country’s rise without leading to wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism.Preorder the book <a href="https://www.routledge.com/How-China-Escaped-Shock-Therapy-The-Market-Reform-Debate/Weber/p/book/9781032008493" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> and get 30% discount by entering Promo Code ADC21.Isabella Weber is the author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy and an Assistant Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Panelists:James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a professorship in government at The University of Texas at Austin. In the 1990s, he served as chief technical adviser to China's State Planning Commission for macroeconomic reform.Branko Milanović is a Senior Scholar at the CUNY Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality and served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years.R. Bin Wong is Director of the UCLA Asia Institute, Distinguished Professor of History and the author of China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience.Hosted by Zhongjin Li, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City and the co-director of the Asian Political Economy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst. This event is hosted by the Depart of Economics and the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachussetts Amherst. All are welcome and spread the word!Zoom information will be provided upon registration by email.

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