This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world. The book describes important...

The economic, China, world history : a critique of pure ideology -- The economic and the state : the Asiatic mode of production -- The economic as transhistory : temporality, the market, and the Austrian school -- The economic as lived experience : semicolonialism and China -- The economic as...