The global financial crisis that started in 2007 sparked several academic debates about the role that financial sector regulators played in the crisis and prompted policy reforms in the financial supervision architectures of several countries. This book focuses on the question of what...

Introduction -- Normative change from within -- Capital ideas and controls -- Capital controlled : the early postwar era -- The limits and hollowness of Keynesianism in the 1960s -- Formal change and informal continuity : the reform negotiations of the 1970s -- Capital freed : informal change...

Executive summary -- 1. China in the realm of the world economy / David Daokui Li -- 2. Interpretation of China's economic comeback / Youngrok Cheong -- 3. Reflections on 10 years of financial reform in China / Ping Xie -- 4. higher education reform in China: market orientation and institutional...

"Aftershocks was written in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Although it would be premature to presume to identify the repercussions of the crisis, it is clear that it will have profound aftershock effects in the political, economic, and social spheres. The...