a range of questions about the global economy. Wolf discusses the paradoxes and puzzles within China's political economy … on the world's economies, including those of China, the United States, Japan, Korea, India, and others. First appearing … economic inequality and where its principal sources may truly lay, China's currency and the continuing controversy about …

1. The Path to Economic Power -- Objectives of This Book -- The Evolution of the Japanese Economy -- The Evolution of U … Constraints -- 5. Selected Trends in the Domestic Economy -- Economic Trends -- Endaka or the High Yen -- Changing Social … Region -- Official Development Assistance -- 9. Looking Ahead -- The Economy and Trade -- Unresolved Domestic Concerns …

Changes in the Domestic Economy -- 6. The Domestic Policy Options -- 7. The International Policy Options -- Afterword …