Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In Episode 7, Ang warns against the two extremes of blindly copying China when it prospers and abandoning the value of its experience when it stumbles.
This pattern has been repeated in attempts to learn from the rise of Europe, America, East Asia, and now China. In taking lessons, we must be aware of what to learn and what not to learn.
Learn more at economicsofchina.org
How can we understand the bright and dark sides of China’s gilded rise? Through the lens of American history.
In this seven-episode series, Yuen Yuen Ang explains how China escaped poverty and became the second largest economy in the world. Rejecting popular assumptions of Chinese exceptionalism, she shows that China’s path to a mixture of wealth and capitalist excesses is more like the American experience than most people think.
Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm
In Episode 7, Ang warns against the two extremes of blindly copying China when it prospers and abandoning the value of its experience when it stumbles.
This pattern has been repeated in attempts to learn from the rise of Europe, America, East Asia, and now China. In taking lessons, we must be aware of what to learn and what not to learn.
Learn more at economicsofchina.org
How can we understand the bright and dark sides of China’s gilded rise? Through the lens of American history.
In this seven-episode series, Yuen Yuen Ang explains how China escaped poverty and became the second largest economy in the world. Rejecting popular assumptions of Chinese exceptionalism, she shows that China’s path to a mixture of wealth and capitalist excesses is more like the American experience than most people think.
Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm
![We Were Wrong about Keynes [James Crotty]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wX_20yHx8Zc/mqdefault.jpg "We Were Wrong about Keynes [James Crotty]
I discovered that the Keynes that I had been taught was not the right Keynes historically. This is one of the two or three most famous economists in history. So how could we have gotten him so wrong?
In 2016 James Crotty (Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst) sat down with INET for a wide ranging conversation about his life and experiences becoming a professional economist.
Learn more at https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/james-crotty-and-the-responsibilities-of-the-heterodox")
