This text analyzes China as a 'risk culture', embracing the opportunity & adventure of Beijing's Olympic architecture, Shenzhen investment bank traders, Shanghai property developers & art markets. It examines the risk-sharing of intergenerational family mortgages, wage-pooling microfinance & regimes of collective saving.
This text analyzes China as a 'risk culture', embracing the opportunity & adventure of Beijing's Olympic architecture, Shenzhen investment bank trader...
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which - more or less - understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business- or business studies-oriented literature seems to argue that if China does not adapt the rule of clear and distinct property and contract law - in short, of Western institutions - its economy will stall. The second set of voices is more clearly from the left, arguing that the Chinese economy, and...
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received...
A diverse, detailed, and thought provoking exploration of modern society, focusing on Scott Lash's concept of 'intensive' (as opposed to expansive) culture. An innovative new work from a major theorist.
A diverse, detailed, and thought provoking exploration of modern society, focusing on Scott Lash's concept of 'intensive' (as opposed to expansive) cu...
