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Dan Wang
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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
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2025
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"One way to read Breakneck is as a complement to Klein and Thompson's Abundance. While Abundance lambasts American bien-pensants for creating rules so onerous they block their own social goals, Breakneck warns about the opposite extreme: a Chinese sta"
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"In one respect, Breakneck is a classic work of a hedgehog. Dan Wang knows one big thing: China is run by engineers, and the United States is run by lawyers. He then applies that idea to many topics, including infrastructure, technology, China’s one-c"
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“Though the lawyerly society corrected the problems of the past, it has produced two pathologies that weaken the United States today. The first is an elevation of process over outcomes. In American government and society, designing new rules and committees have so often become the substitute for thinking hard about strategy and ends.”
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
