| Autore |
Gorrie James R
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (304 p.)
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| Disciplina |
330.951
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| Soggetto topico |
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
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| ISBN |
1-118-70551-3
1-118-47080-X
1-118-47078-8
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A World on Edge -- What Is the Proper Context in Which to Assess China Today? -- China's Self-Inflicted Crises -- Great Leap Forward or Famine? -- Cultural Revolution or Social Cannibalism? -- How Has Economic Integration with the Global Economy Changed China? -- Is China Becoming the Next Superpower? -- Trading Partner to the World -- The World's Manufacturer -- An Appetite for Commodities -- Why Does China Have "Gold Fever?" -- What Does the Rise of Other Nations, but Especially of China, Mean for the Current Financial System? -- Marketing the China Brand -- Does China Have a Bright and Powerful Future? -- What's Really behind the Great Wall? -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Stability and Legitimacy: A Chinese Crisis from Within -- What Kinds of Risks and Problems Are Typical of Unstable Nations? -- Stability and Instability: What Are They? -- The Source of China's "Stability" -- What Are the Characteristics and Effects of Instability? -- Does Stability also Mean "Legitimacy" in China? -- Is Legitimacy of the Government Necessary for Stability? -- Does Communist China Have a History of Stability? -- Does China's Beijing Model Lead to Stability and Legitimacy? -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Rising Tide of Instability -- Has China Been Influenced by Western Ideas? -- Sources of Rising Instability in China -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Is China's Economy Sustainable? -- The Beijing Model: The Path Forward or Cannibal Capitalism? -- What Is the Beijing Model? -- Is the Beijing Model Self-Sustaining? -- Notes -- Chapter 5: China's Quiet Crisis: Financial and Economic Meltdown -- A Perception of Strength -- China's Quality of GDP -- A Public and Private Stimulus Time Bomb -- Development versus Economic Growth -- How Much Was the Money Supply Expanded in China? -- Bursting Bubbles.
How Underperforming Are the Assets and the Loans Underlying Them? -- China's Banks Looking for the Real Thing -- Currency Manipulation and the Domestic Economy -- Will the Yuan Devaluation Be Enough to Keep the Economy Going? -- Inflation and Deflation Dangers -- Food for Riots -- Financial Endgame -- Notes -- Chapter 6 China's Extreme Environmental Degradation -- Raging Environmental Crises -- A History of Huge Mistakes -- Hiding the Truth -- Command Economies, Dehumanized Society, and Pollution -- Pollution, Development, and Democracy -- China's Lose-Lose-Lose Proposition -- China's Air Pollution-Gasping For a Breath of Fresh Air -- Bitter Water: China's Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Poison -- How Bad Is the Water Pollution Situation in China? -- Cancer Villages and Insanity -- Why Has China's Water Pollution Gotten So Bad? -- Lifeless Oceans -- A Plague Upon the Land -- China's Dead Zones -- The Land of Arsenic -- Why Is Such Pollution Tolerated? -- CCP Land Policies Promote Abuse -- Losing the Breadbasket -- The Deforestation and Desertification of China -- What Is the Real Cause of Desertification? -- Ghosts of Famines Past -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Political Transition and the Breaking Point -- Will Xi Jinping Unify the CCP? -- Liberalization versus Stability -- Passing the Torch: China's New Nationalism -- Domestic Crises for the New Leadership -- How Will the New Chinese Leadership Navigate the Rough Waters Ahead? -- Hell and High Water -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Empire Decline and Complexity Theory -- China as an Empire -- Hong Kong -- Taiwan -- China's Uighur Problem in Xinjiang -- The Sandals and Saffron Threat of Tibet -- Fear and Greed in the New Leadership -- Complexity Theory -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The Fall of the Red Dragon -- China's War with China -- The Breakup -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index.
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The China crisis [[electronic resource] ] : how China's economic collapse will lead to a global depression / / James R. Gorrie
