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Delving into the Issues of the Chinese Economy and the World by Marxist Economists
This book, edited by Cheng Enfu, is one of the results of the discipline construction and theoretical research of the Marxist Theory implemented by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and is one from the book series The Discipline Construction and Theoretical Research of the Marxist Theory. This book mainly contains the representative and high-level articles on Marxist economics published nationwide in 2013, which are the representative, cutting-edge and authoritative results of current theoretical research in China on Marxism.
446 pages, Paperback
Published November 24, 2020
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May 25, 2022
A really useful book for those wanting to get some insight on the socialist market economy and the state of the economic debate in China in general - including the thoughts of some leading academics in relation to the global economy, neoliberalism, financialisation, 'corporate social responsibility', and so on.
The book is composed of 30 journal articles that have been translated into English. The authors - including the editor, Cheng Enfu - are situated towards the left of Chinese academia; that is, they're all pretty hardcore Marxists. While they are supportive overall of Reform and Opening Up, they're concerned about the possibility of it going too far, of failing to find a correct balance of 'fairness' and 'efficiency', of the public-owned and -controlled sector of the economy losing its primacy, and of the balance of power tilting too far in the direction of the owners of capital. Given the book was published in 2014, I imagine the authors would be pleased to see China's current trajectory and focus on common prosperity, olive-shaped distribution, regulating big tech, and generally clamping down on the disorderly expansion of private capital.
Repetitive in places, and the translation isn't always fantastic. A good read nevertheless.
The book is composed of 30 journal articles that have been translated into English. The authors - including the editor, Cheng Enfu - are situated towards the left of Chinese academia; that is, they're all pretty hardcore Marxists. While they are supportive overall of Reform and Opening Up, they're concerned about the possibility of it going too far, of failing to find a correct balance of 'fairness' and 'efficiency', of the public-owned and -controlled sector of the economy losing its primacy, and of the balance of power tilting too far in the direction of the owners of capital. Given the book was published in 2014, I imagine the authors would be pleased to see China's current trajectory and focus on common prosperity, olive-shaped distribution, regulating big tech, and generally clamping down on the disorderly expansion of private capital.
Repetitive in places, and the translation isn't always fantastic. A good read nevertheless.
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