Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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.
Learn more at economicsofchina.org
Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm
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.
Learn more at economicsofchina.org
Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Kurt Semm
![Fear and Loathing in Expertise [Rob Johnson]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OPCNEOtZelQ/mqdefault.jpg "Fear and Loathing in Expertise [Rob Johnson]
Expertise is broken. Trust is eroding. Enough is enough.
Rob Johnson and INET are calling on you to join us in redoubling our efforts. We are here to support you in learning about the systemic challenges we face, and to provide the tools necessary to shine light on darkness. Together we will fix this mess, because a society without trust is no society at all.
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