Posts Tagged ‘china’
Spiked article on Chinese workers
11 Aug 2010My latest article, on the western media’s perverse support for class struggle in China, is live on spiked.
- Tags: china, consumption, ethics, media appearances, spiked, trade, work
RCM link to China comment
3 Aug 2010Today’s Real Clear Markets includes a link to my Fund Strategy comment on the western media’s perverse support for strikes by Chinese workers (see yesterday’s first post).
- Tags: china, Fund Strategy, media appearances
Media supports industrial militancy
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2 Aug 2010This is my comment from the latest Fund Strategy. Those who rejoiced at the end of working class militancy could be in for a nasty shock when they realise what is happening. Influential voices in the West are starting to express sympathy with strike action for higher wages. The Financial Times was perhaps the first [...]
- Tags: china, consumption, development, Fund Strategy
Book Monitor: Chinese inequality
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27 Jul 2010Martin King Whyte, a professor of sociology at Harvard, has written a fascinating sounding study of perceptions of inequality in China. The Myth of the Social Volcano (Stanford UP) is based on the first systematic national survey of Chinese citizins which was carried on in 2004 According to a discussion of the book in the [...]
- Tags: book, china, development, inequality
Attitudes to Chinese growth
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22 Jul 2010The latest survey from the Pew Global Attitudes Project suggests that many people see China’s growing economy as problematic (fourth table down). Some 47% of Americans, 42% of Britons and 58% of Germans see China’s growing economy as a bad thing. Several other countries also feel threatened by China’s economic rise including Turkey (60%), India [...]
- Tags: china, development, growth
Articles of note
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11 Jul 2010Can democracies kick the growth habit? A debate with Tim Jackson, From Poverty to Power blog, by Duncan Green. Two leading British sceptics broadly agree on what they see as the limits to growth. Accentuate the negative, Economist. A report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) questions some of the findings of the Intergovernmental [...]
- Tags: articles of note, china, climate, environment, growth, Malthus
Articles of note
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4 Jul 2010Inequality in America, the Nation. Roundtable debate including Dean Baker, Jeff Madrick and Robert Reich. Many poisoned rivers, Literary Review, by Jonathan Mirsky. Review of When a billion Chinese jump by Jonathan Watts. More on China as a “green peril”. Decelerating decarbonization of the global economy, Roger Pielke Jr’s blog. An official Dutch study shows [...]
- Tags: America, Austerity Watch, china, climate, development, environment, happiness, inequality
Articles of note
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27 Jun 2010The other oil spill, Economist. On the green campaign against palm oil. Friction and vested interests in pulp and palm oil production, Jakarta Post, by Bill Durodie. Argues that the campaign against palm oil emanates from the West. China’s export economy begins turning inward, New York Times, by Edward Wong. The Chinese authorities have not [...]
- Tags: china, consumption, economics, energy, environment
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20 Jun 2010President of change unwilling to tackle US oil addiction, Der Spiegel, by Gregor Peter Schmitz. A leading German publication endorses the bizarre notion that the world is “addicted” to oil rather than needing it to fuel prosperity. New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rainforests, New York Times, By Elisabeth Rosenthal. Declining Latin American inequality, Vox, [...]
- Tags: America, china, climate, energy, environment, inequality, Latin America
Krugman’s petty patriotism
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19 Jun 2010The more I read Paul Krugman’s work the most I dislike it – and I have read several of his books and countless articles. To me the New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate in economics is the archetypal shrill patriot who sees himself as “liberal” (his description) and cosmopolitan. His hawkishness has become increasingly [...]
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