The Chinese Birdcage

How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-58888-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2853 g

This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping’s policy of ‘reform and opening up’ in the 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory floor.but powerful political leaders envisioned a world in which the market economy would be trapped within the confines of a planned economy. With China’s admission into the World Trade Organization in 2001, almost a billion people joined the global workforce, driving down the real wages of blue- and white-collar workers in the US and Europe while also lowering interest rates, which fueled housing bubbles and destabilized the financial sector. This book explores China’s significant influence on western economies by focusing on the links between the labor market, corporate profits, and interest rates, using Arthur Lewis's framework for economic growth with unlimited supplies of labor to argue that by2010 the world economy – and political situations – had been set back almost one hundred years.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mees, Heleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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's Economic Development.- 9 Global Imbalances and Corporate Cash Piles.- 10 The Capitalist Surplus and the Shortfall in Demand.- 11 Piketty Reconsidered.- 12 What Lies Ahead?.

Über Autor(innen)

Heleen Mees was Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy. She is a columnist for the Dutch daily De Volkskrant and she writes opinion articles for various international publications including Foreign Policy , The Financial Times , Project Syndicate , and NRC Handelsblad .