This paper studies the persistent effects of China’s Great Wall, built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), on contemporary … frontiers as a deep-rooted cause of China’s huge regional disparities …

capitalist economies (ECEs) - Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey - during the periods 2000 …

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the … Western Hemisphere -- 5 The Global Financial Crisis -- 6 The Economic Fallout -- 7 Unlimited Supplies of Labor -- 8 China …This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income …

"This book represents an initial attempt to compare China, Japan, and South Korea, three close geographical and …