Chapter 1: The First Crisis 1949-1950 -- Chapter 2: The Second to Fourth Crises 1958-1976 -- Chapter 3: The Fifth to Seventh Crises 1978-1996 -- Chapter 4: The Eighth and Ninth Crises 1997 and 2008 -- Chapter 5: The Tenth Crisis 2013-the present.

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

Chapter 1 The Spreading of Stalin's Issues on The Socialist Economy in the Soviet Union in China in the 1950s and the Discussion on the Issue of Basic Economic Principles during the Transitional Period Triggered by Such Spreading -- Chapter 2 Exploration and Argument on the Relationship between...

This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the road from the dominance of Keynesian ideas to those of New Classical Macroeconomics (NCM) toward...

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Revelation: State Capacity and Economic Development -- Chapter 2 Foundation Laying: From Old China to New China -- Chapter 3 Exploration: From New China’s First 30 Years to Next 40 Years -- Chapter 4 Adjust and Control: From Planning to Programming -- Chapter 5...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

Looking back on World War I at the turn of the century -- The international pattern and world order under "A Hundred Years of change" -- National rejuvenation and peripheral diplomacy under "A hundred years of change" -- The responsibility of great powers and global governance under the "Hundred...

Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

Chapter 1: On writing Africa’s economic history -- Chapter 2: Research on Africa’s history and development – a review -- Chapter 3: Back in history, 1000-1850 -- Chapter 4: Economic and political integration, 1850-1920 -- Chapter 5: Transformation and administration, 1920-1950 -- Chapter...