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The Culture Club

Lawrence E. Harrison | Mar 01, 2006
Not all cultures are equally conducive to progress.

China's Democratic Prospects: A Dissenting View

George T. Crane | Sep 01, 1999
Is Chinese nationalism democracy's enemy, and capitalism its friend? Or is it the other way around?

Undemocratic Capitalism

David Zweig | Jun 01, 1999
Will  the market democratize China? The logic of economic determinism may not be so inexorable after all.

Another Way to Skin a Cat: The Spirit of Capitalism and the Confucian Ethic

Grace Goodell | Dec 01, 1995
I have examined the non-economic factors that have contributed to the Little Dragons' remarkable achievements. I have focused mainly on businessmen, government officials, and factory workers who were active players during the decisive years from t

The Op-Ed History of America

Michael Lind | Sep 01, 1994
Many American policymakers and scholars believe they have learned the lessons of nineteenth and twentieth-century history for U.S. foreign policy. Three such "lessons" dominate discussion: the Lesson of American Development; the Lesson of the Pax

A Question of Linkage: Capitalism, Prosperity, Democracy...

Irwin Stelzer | Mar 01, 1994
The simultaneous explosion of economic growth in still-authoritarian China and economic collapse in increasingly democratic Russia rekindles an old debate.
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Books & Reviews

Dreaming Europe in a Wide-Awake World

James C. Bennett | Dec 01, 2004
When it comes to Europe's gilded future, success is always just around the corner. Europeanists need to wake up--or risk being left behind by an unlikely coalition.

The Beginning of Economic Wisdom

Michael Novak | Mar 01, 2003
Two primers on economics reveal a lingering philosophical divide in the intellectual imagination of our time.

Money and Power: Pondering Economic Growth and Decline

Richard Rosecrance | Jun 01, 2002
A trio of books proposes intriguing reasons for economic growth--national pride, surplus labor and investment security--but none parses the novelty of the virtual state.
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