"This book examines the economic, cultural and structural factors affecting China's economic growth, and expounds why China's economy has been so successful in the past, and the challenges that lie ahead for the country amidst the changing world, new challenges and uncertainties. The authors lay...

"Over the past three decades, China's economic structure, direction and international presence have undergone a dramatic transformation. This rapid rise and China's enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to...

PART ONE: THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS -- 1. Economic Systems -- 2. Economic Planning in Various Settings -- PART TWO: TWO CANONICAL STATE SOCIALISMS -- 3. The Soviet CPE I: The Process of Planning -- 4. The Soviet CPE II: The Process of Implementation -- 5. The Chinese CPE: Planning in an...

A disturbing look at the growing political, economic, and social power of China and the threat that nation poses to the Western world, this book lays out how the Chinese are strategizing to overtake the United States as the world's premier economic power--and details how our failure to respond...