China's Economic Culture: The Ritual Order of State and Markets

ISBN-13: 9781138588080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 608 str.

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Opis

China's spectacular rise challenges established economic moulds, but both Chinese and Western observers ask whether China's reform process is really a fast catch-up process led by transitional reforms, with ultimate convergence to global standards, or something different. This book, by a leading economist and sinologist, argues that "culture" is an exceptionally useful tool to help understand fully the current picture of the Chinese economy. The book examines long-run path dependencies and cultural legacies, showing how these contribute to the current cultural construction of economic systems, businesses and patterns of embedding the economy into society and politics.

O autorze

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath is a Research Professor of Economics and Evolutionary Sciences, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, a Fellow of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University, Germany, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China.