Liu He (Harvard MPA´95) compares two global crises: the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008. This study was published in China in the summer of 2012. The objective of the project was to understand past events in order “to navigate the ongoing financial crisis safely and respond more proactively by learning from history.” With the perspective of an insider who supported Chinese leaders in making choices that allowed China’s economy not only to weather the crisis, but to outperform all other economies since the crisis, he provides a nuanced account of the past and astute clues for the future. While he doesn’t say so, the brute fact is that since the 2008 financial crisis, nearly 40% of all the growth in the global economy has taken place in just one country: China, despite its having only 15% of the world’s population and less than 20% of its income.
Original is at https://book.douban.com/subject/21964791/
Politics of Corporate Investment, Trade and Global GovernanceJeffrey Harrod
Forty-eight slides used in the presentation of a 16 session course of the same name. Begins with and introduction to the global political economy as the setting for corporate foreign investment and trade. The slides enable to course to be followed and provide examples, critical analysis and new information..
Politics of Corporate Investment, Trade and Global GovernanceJeffrey Harrod
Forty-eight slides used in the presentation of a 16 session course of the same name. Begins with and introduction to the global political economy as the setting for corporate foreign investment and trade. The slides enable to course to be followed and provide examples, critical analysis and new information..
This slide discusses about the core-periphery model given by John Friedmann. This model is basically a model of regional Development. You will able to learn about the core-periphery model very easily by this slide.
Definition of development & Underdevelopment
Theories of Development
a) Modernization theory
b) Dependency theory
c) Participation theory
d) Marxist thought of Development
Conclusion
References
Linda Yueh, Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School and BBC World Chief Business Correspondent selects essential reading for those who want to understand the Chinese economic miracle.
This was first published in Business Strategy Review Volume 24. Issue 2-2013. Subscribe today to receive your quarterly copy delivered to your home or work place. http://bit.ly/BSR-subscribe
Economic indicators relates to a town, city or region. a region is understood through these indicators. Making use of these indicators for planning is economic planning. Multi level planning and five year plans in Indian contesxt are examples of economic planning.
Since decades, modern economics is considered to be a social science, and has become so deeply rooted in the thoughts of western individuals that it has gained a position as nothing more than common sense, even though its fundamental rules have proved to be illogical (Radice, 2008). These rules also act as the guiding principles for Neoliberalism, which is a theory that derives its roots from modern economics. The foundation of modern economics was laid by Adam Smith, who is also known as the father of modern economics, in his work ‘The Wealth of Nations’ (Liow, 2012).
Latin America has been strongly affected by the international crisis and recession since late 2008. In comparison to historical experience, how has Latin America coped with the global crisis, which has been the role of different transmission mechanisms, and how have the region's structural and policy conditions affected its sensitivity to foreign shocks? Moreover, what policies can protect the region better from world crises and shocks, and to which extent should it rely on a strategy of close trade and financial integration into a world economy punctuated by shocks and crises? This paper addresses the latter questions in three steps. First, by assessing empirically the sensitivity of growth in the region's seven major economies during 1990-2009 to large number of structural and cyclical factors, based on high-frequency panel-data estimations. Second, by using the latter results to decompose the amplitude of GDP reductions in both recessions according to the individual and combined contribution of the different growth factors. Third, to derive the main implications of the results for the choice of macroeconomic regimes and development strategies.
Authored by: Vittorio Corbo and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Published in 2011
2 weeks in Beijing, China for the London School of Economics & Peking University summer school.
A description of the class, some insights, my thoughts and more...
China: Dimensions of the Dragon’s Rise in International Influence and Its Imp...CrimsonPublishersAAOA
Mao said, “The world is in chaos, the situation is excellent” [1].
China has achieved spectacular progress in face of immense difficulties. It has maintained a rapid pace of economic growth for over twenty-five years without significant political liberalization. In only three decades, China has risen to become a global economic power.
https://crimsonpublishers.com/aaoa/fulltext/AAOA.000507.php
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This slide discusses about the core-periphery model given by John Friedmann. This model is basically a model of regional Development. You will able to learn about the core-periphery model very easily by this slide.
Definition of development & Underdevelopment
Theories of Development
a) Modernization theory
b) Dependency theory
c) Participation theory
d) Marxist thought of Development
Conclusion
References
Linda Yueh, Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School and BBC World Chief Business Correspondent selects essential reading for those who want to understand the Chinese economic miracle.
This was first published in Business Strategy Review Volume 24. Issue 2-2013. Subscribe today to receive your quarterly copy delivered to your home or work place. http://bit.ly/BSR-subscribe
Economic indicators relates to a town, city or region. a region is understood through these indicators. Making use of these indicators for planning is economic planning. Multi level planning and five year plans in Indian contesxt are examples of economic planning.
Since decades, modern economics is considered to be a social science, and has become so deeply rooted in the thoughts of western individuals that it has gained a position as nothing more than common sense, even though its fundamental rules have proved to be illogical (Radice, 2008). These rules also act as the guiding principles for Neoliberalism, which is a theory that derives its roots from modern economics. The foundation of modern economics was laid by Adam Smith, who is also known as the father of modern economics, in his work ‘The Wealth of Nations’ (Liow, 2012).
Latin America has been strongly affected by the international crisis and recession since late 2008. In comparison to historical experience, how has Latin America coped with the global crisis, which has been the role of different transmission mechanisms, and how have the region's structural and policy conditions affected its sensitivity to foreign shocks? Moreover, what policies can protect the region better from world crises and shocks, and to which extent should it rely on a strategy of close trade and financial integration into a world economy punctuated by shocks and crises? This paper addresses the latter questions in three steps. First, by assessing empirically the sensitivity of growth in the region's seven major economies during 1990-2009 to large number of structural and cyclical factors, based on high-frequency panel-data estimations. Second, by using the latter results to decompose the amplitude of GDP reductions in both recessions according to the individual and combined contribution of the different growth factors. Third, to derive the main implications of the results for the choice of macroeconomic regimes and development strategies.
Authored by: Vittorio Corbo and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Published in 2011
2 weeks in Beijing, China for the London School of Economics & Peking University summer school.
A description of the class, some insights, my thoughts and more...
China: Dimensions of the Dragon’s Rise in International Influence and Its Imp...CrimsonPublishersAAOA
Mao said, “The world is in chaos, the situation is excellent” [1].
China has achieved spectacular progress in face of immense difficulties. It has maintained a rapid pace of economic growth for over twenty-five years without significant political liberalization. In only three decades, China has risen to become a global economic power.
https://crimsonpublishers.com/aaoa/fulltext/AAOA.000507.php
For more open access journals in Crimson Publishers please click on link: https://crimsonpublishers.com/
For more articles in open access Archaeology journals please click on link: https://crimsonpublishers.com/aaoa/
Maniefsto: Xiulan Zhang - Reflections on Innovation, Sustainability and Devel...STEPS Centre
The STEPS Centre Symposium, 26 September 2009, focused on our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project. This presentation by Xiulan Zhang of Beijing Normal University, China, was one of those given at the event. For more information see: www.anewmanifesto.org
The report reveals that many governments are not paying enough attention to the social implications of their economic policies geared towards recovery from the economic crisis. According to the report, recovery has been uneven and continues to be fragile, with a wide range of negative social impacts lingering from the economic downturn. Poverty and unemployment have for instance been linked to crime, gender-based violence, substance abuse and mental illness.
The Report on the World Social Situation 2011: The Global Social Crisis, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), finds many governments did not pay sufficient attention to the social implications of the global economic crisis. The report says economic policies considered in isolation from their social consequences often create dire results for people’s nutrition, health and education, which, in turn, adversely affect long-term economic growth.
The 20th anniversary of the beginning of economic reforms in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union provides a good opportunity to comment on the lessons of transition says Andrei Shleifer, a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He made a top seven list, which might be useful to future reformers. Some of the issues are relevant not only for communist countries; the problems of heavily statist economies are similar.
Authored by: Andrei Shleifer
Published in 2012
Research the Health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient.docxgholly1
Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following:
1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing.
3. Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
4. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
RUBRICS: A discussion on the importance of the health-illness continuum in relation to health and the human experience in patient care is presented. The discussion demonstrates that the health-illness continuum is important to patient care. Strong rationale is offered for support.
A thorough explanation of the relationship between the health-illness continuum and the ability of a health care provider to promote the value, dignity, and flourishing of patients is logically and convincingly presented. The explanation draws clear connections between the role of the health care provider and the promotion of human flourishing. Strong rationale is offered for support
A well-developed discussion of personal state of health is included. The discussion demonstrates strong personal insight into behaviors supporting or detracting from health and well-being. The author clearly establishes where Options and resources available that would be extremely helpful to help the author move toward wellness on the health-illness continuum are presented. The author clearly establishes how these will assist in moving toward wellness. Insight into wellness as it pertains to the health illness continuum is demonstrated personal health falls on the health-illness continuum.
Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
Clear and convincing argument that presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.
Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, .
Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient.docxaudeleypearl
Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following:
1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing.
3. Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
4. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
RUBRICS: A discussion on the importance of the health-illness continuum in relation to health and the human experience in patient care is presented. The discussion demonstrates that the health-illness continuum is important to patient care. Strong rationale is offered for support.
A thorough explanation of the relationship between the health-illness continuum and the ability of a health care provider to promote the value, dignity, and flourishing of patients is logically and convincingly presented. The explanation draws clear connections between the role of the health care provider and the promotion of human flourishing. Strong rationale is offered for support
A well-developed discussion of personal state of health is included. The discussion demonstrates strong personal insight into behaviors supporting or detracting from health and well-being. The author clearly establishes where Options and resources available that would be extremely helpful to help the author move toward wellness on the health-illness continuum are presented. The author clearly establishes how these will assist in moving toward wellness. Insight into wellness as it pertains to the health illness continuum is demonstrated personal health falls on the health-illness continuum.
Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
Clear and convincing argument that presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.
Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, ...
Rana Hendy - Doha Institute
Mahmoud Mohieldin - World Bank
ERF 25th Annual Conference
Knowledge, Research Networks & Development Policy
10-12 March, 2019
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Viewing the Chinese economy as a speeding car, there are three types of development that could crash the car: (1) a hardware failure, which is the breakdown of an economic mechanism (analogous to the collapse of the chassis of the car), e.g. a banking crisis; (2) a software failure, which is a flaw in governance that creates social disorders (analogous to a fight among the people inside the car), e.g. the state not being able to meet the rising social expectations about its performance because many of the key regulatory institutions are absent or ineffective; and (3) a power supply failure, which is the loss of economic viability (analogous to the car running out of gas or having its ignition key pulled out) e.g. an environmental collapse or an export collapse.
The fact that China has recently declared that its most important task is to build a Harmonious Society (described as a democratic society under the rule of law and living in harmony with nature) suggests that improvements in governance and protection of the environment are among the most serious challenges to achieving sustainable development. The greatest inadequacy of the Harmonious Society vision is the absence of an objective to build a harmonious world because a harmonious society cannot endure in China unless there is also a harmonious world, and vice-versa. The large amount of structural adjustments in the developed countries generated by rapid globalization and technological innovations has made the international atmosphere ripe for trade protectionism; and environmental degradation has made conflict over the global environmental commons more likely. China's quest for a harmonious society requires it to help provide global public goods, particularly the strengthening of the multilateral free trade system, and the protection of the global environmental commons. Specifically, China should work actively for the success of the Doha Round and for an international research consortium to develop clean coal technology.
Authored by: Wing Thye Woo
Published in 2007
This working paper describes evaluation as a growth industry in rapid transformation. Given the twin challenges of increased inequality and results orientation a new generation of evaluators will have to learn to surf a social impact wave. Given the rise of emerging market countries they will be called upon to move the center of gravity of the discipline south and east. Given the complexity of development challenges they will have to replenish the evaluation tool kit. Given the advent of big data and the spread of social networking they will tap the vast opportunities of a ‘plugged in’ world. Finally given the advent of results oriented networks they will forge resilient connections between public, private and civil society actors in pursuit of collective impact.
ECO 202 – Written Assignment Scoring Rubric Complete th.docxtidwellveronique
ECO 202 – Written Assignment Scoring Rubric
Complete the assignment with attention to the following criteria:
Rating Scale Exemplary: Corresponds to an A- to A (90-100%)
Proficient: Corresponds to B- to B+ (80-89%)
Basic: Corresponds to C- to C+ (70-79%)
Novice: Corresponds to D to D+ (60-69%)
Not Attempted: Corresponds to an F (0-59%)
Elements
Criteria
Not Attempted
(Criterion is
missing or not in
evidence)
Novice
(does not meet
expectations;
performance is
substandard)
Basic
(works towards
meeting expectations;
performance needs
improvement)
Proficient
(meets expectations;
performance is
satisfactory)
Exemplary
(exceeds
expectations;
performance is
outstanding)
Length
Requirements
20%
There was little
or no evidence
of an essay
0-11 Points
The paper is
entirely too
short.
12-13 Points
The paper
contains a great
deal of “fluff” and
still doesn’t meet
the length
requirements
14-15 Points
The paper is just
a little on the
short side and/or
it meets the
requirements
only because it
contains “fluff”
that could use
trimming.
16-17 Points
The paper falls
within the
required length
requirements
without going
over and
without straying
from the main
topic(s).
18-20 Points
Mechanics of
Writing
30%
Little to no
evidence of
proper writing
mechanics
0-17 Points
The grammar
of the paper
greatly
impedes
understanding
of content;
and/or the
paper contains
no citations.
18-20 Points
The paper needs
a good deal of
improvement with
respect to
grammar,
citations, spelling,
and/or style.
21-23 Points
The paper is
mostly free of
errors with
respect to
grammar,
citations, spelling,
and/or style, but
needs some
improvement in
this area.
24-26 Points
The paper is
nearly perfect
with respect to
grammar,
citations,
spelling, and
style.
27-30 Points
Understanding
& Application
50%
The paper
exhibits a
complete lack
of
understanding
of the text
and/or course
materials, and
the application
was incorrect.
0-29 Points
The paper
exhibits very
little
understanding
of the text
and/or course
materials, and
the application
was vague.
30-34 Points
The paper exhibits
basic
understanding of
the text and/or
course materials,
but needs
improvement in
this area. The
application was
superficial and did
not go in depth.
35-39 Points
The paper
exhibits sufficient
understanding of
the text and/or
course materials,
but some
improvement
needed. The
application was
detailed and
shows a
developing level
of understanding.
40-44 Points
The paper does
an excellent job
demonstrating
an accurate
understanding
of the text
and/or course
materials. The
application
showed a
higher level of
analysis
45-50 Points
Chapter 7.
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Europe begins to reposition itself in the world, by taking on greater responsibility for its own safety and well-being.
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This captures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMB business operations, their financial performance, the actions that they have taken to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. This report was conducted from May 28-31, 2020, and captures the views of more than 30,000 business owners, managers & employees worldwide. The survey aims to provide a point-in-time snapshot of the online SMB sector – more specifically, those with Facebook Business Pages – in 50 countries. NOTE It is not designed to reflect the entire business population of a given country or region.
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BOND Capital is a global technology investment firm that supports visionary founders throughout their life cycle of innovation & growth. BOND’s founding partners have backed industry pioneers such as DocuSign, Peloton, Spotify, Square & Uber.
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European Investment Fund, Invest Europe : Data-driven insights about VC-backe...Amalist Client Services
EUR 51bn in nearly 9000 Venture Capital-invested firms in 2007-15 : analyse their characteristics as well as subsequent performance.
VC cannot change the business reality where some firms make it while others cannot, but it can be the deciding factor in a start-up’s road to success. venture capital may not be that impactful for low growth companies.
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Next steps :
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Step up implementation across all thematic areas
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World´s 5th largest population, 9th largest eco & a govt encouraging competition in highly concentrated banking system....by FT Partners, June 2019
(Fintech Industry research from reputed fintech-only house)
By 2018 China had created a $25 trillion capital market with $13 trillion in equity market capitalization on the Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges and $12 trillion in various fixed income instruments traded in the interbank markets.
China´s asset management industry is beginning to rival that of the US. This report looks at the industry by tracking its past, looking at the present, and predicting its future. April 2019.
This report is based on the views expressed during, and short papers contributed by speakers at, a workshop organised by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service as part of its academic outreach program. Offered as a means to support ongoing discussion, the report does not constitute an analytical document, nor does it represent any formal position of the organisations involved. The workshop was conducted under the Chatham House rule; therefore no attributions are made and the identity of speakers and participants is not disclosed.
Expert Notes series publication No. 2018-05-02
www.canada.ca (May 2018)
Investors put larger sums of money into fewer cos. in this period. €4.4B was deployed across 571 deals. 18 vehicles raised €2.1B. Median fund size at €86M.
European Tech cos (founded 2000 or later) with $1 B valuations - by GP Bullhound, Sept 2017.
Too much money is chasin too few (GOOD) cos. This means there´s a tremendous opportunity for creating new GOOD cos here...!
Over 100 decision-makers working directly on corporate innovation in Fortune 1000 (Americas, Europe, Asia) corporations share their learnings. By 500 Startups.
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3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
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2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
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Overcoming the Great Recession:
Lessons From China
Liu He
July 2014
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Copyright 2014 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Chief Author:
Liu He
Minister, Office of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs,
People’s Republic of China; Minister and Vice Director, National Development and Reform
Commission, People’s Republic of China
Project Director:
Liu He
Project Team Members
Wang Zhijun, Meng Jian, Zhu Dantao, Li Xunmin
After the first draft was finished, we solicited opinions from Wu Jinglian, Fan Gang, Yi Gang, Li Yang,
Han Wenxiu, Lu Mai, Liu Chunhang, Wei Jianing, Cai Hongbin. We also sounded out expertise from Yang
Weimin, Pu Chun, Liu Guoqiang, Yin Yanlin, and Zhao Jian of the Central Finance Leadership Group
Office. The authors thank them for their valuable inputs.
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Inernational Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. June 2014.
Cover photo: Shanghai Tower (under construction), as seen from the Yuyuan Gardens.
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Foreword
By Graham Allison and Lawrence Summers
For the past decade, Liu He has been an influential economist and policy advisor in Beijing. An
alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA ’95), Liu was a trusted advisor to President Hu
Jintao during the global financial crisis of 2008. Since Xi Jinping became president in 2012, he
has emerged as Xi’s right-hand man on economic policy. As head of the Office of the Central
Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs, comparable to the National Economic Council
in the United States, Liu frames policy options for the Politburo Standing Committee and has been
named in the press as “chief architect” of the major reform program announced at the conclusion
of the Third Plenum in November 2013. At the Summit between Presidents Obama and Xi at
Sunnylands, Liu was one of two assistants President Xi included in the conversations.
In a way that is perhaps more common in the United States than in China, Liu is both a practicioner
and a student of economic policy. He recognizes the need for China to learn from global experi-
ence as its economy develops and integrates into the global economy. In this thoughtful paper,
Liu compares two global crises: the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008.
This study was undertaken early in the crisis and published in China in the summer of 2012. The
objective of the project was to understand past events in order “to navigate the ongoing financial
crisis safely and respond more proactively by learning from history.” With the perspective of an
insider who supported Chinese leaders in making choices that allowed China’s economy not only
to weather the crisis, but to outperform all other economies since the crisis, he provides a nuanced
account of the past and astute clues for the future. While he doesn’t say so, the brute fact is that
since the 2008 financial crisis, nearly 40% of all the growth in the global economy has taken place
in just one country: China, despite its having only 15% of the world’s population and less than 20%
of its income. Liu’s reflections on lessons learned and guidance taken, as well as questions that
remain unanswered are thus instructive for policymakers, and investors, around the world.
Among the many insights from Liu’s study, we found the following to be especially interesting:
• Common features between the two crises included not only major technological revolu-
tions and laissez faire regulatory policies, but in the preceding economic boom, a “yawn-
ing income gap.” As he points out, incomes of the wealthiest 1% in the United States ac-
counted for 23.9% of total income in 1928; the share was 23.5% in 2007.
• In both crises, policymakers faced the triple challenge of “populism, nationalism, and eco-
nomic problems that were turned into political and ideological ones.” Liu is critical of
all major countries for missing opportunities and making “obvious errors” in their initial
responses to the crises: “a tightening policy was pursued, while expansionary policy was
necessary; protectionism prevailed while a policy of opening up and international coop-
eration was in need; and efforts to slash welfare programs and boost structural reforms
were impeded or even rolled back.” In his view, politicians were too often “hijacked by
short-term public opinion and mired in political gridlock, afraid of breaking ideological
constraints,” most vividly in the case of Europe.
• Such crises are not only “destined to be long-lasting,” but have broader redistributive
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effects on the global balance of power. Noting that “the extreme consequences of the Great
Depression were Adolf Hitler’s seizure of power for civil elections and the outbreak of
WWII,” Liu warns that “we must be alert for any unexpected events that will crop up while
the crisis is still developing as well as for runaway developments and miscalculations.”
The ongoing Arab revolutions, for example, in his view are not unrelated to the economic
crisis that preceded them.
• Finally, Liu notes that global economic crises “redistribute not merely wealth within a
country, but the relative power of all nations.” He asks whether the latest crisis may once
again validate Henry Kissinger’s observation that a new power emerges every 100 years.
As the era following the Great Depression saw a shift of global economic power from
Europe to America, he raises the question of whether recent events may accelerate the shift
to the Asia-Pacific.
Among the policy recommendations he draws from this analysis for China (that may also be ap-
propriate for others), he emphasizes three:
• Prepare for “extreme cases by designing responses to the worst possible scenario.” In his
view, this means not only “effectively dealing with abrupt exogenous shocks and impacts,
but making long-term preparations for structural changes resulting from the crisis.”
• Recognize post-crisis strategic opportunities. Before the crisis, China’s growth was driven
by overseas market expansion and internal capital flows. Now, in his view, “our strategic
opportunities take the form of the domestic driving a world economic recovery, acquisition
of technologies of developed countries, and investment and infrastructure.”
• Focus first and foremost on “putting our domestic affairs in order as the foundation for
tackling external impacts and realizing our peaceful rise in the world.”
In the wake of the financial crisis and China’s rapid growth it is inevitable that China will take
a much more active role in global economic governance in the future than it has in the past. It is
important therefore for all of us in the West to better understand Chinese perspectives on global
economic history. We learned a lot from Liu’s analysis and expect readers will also.
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Since the onset of the current international financial crisis, we have been thinking about how
long the crisis could persist, what international impact it could have, and how we could respond
effectively. In 2010, we initiated a comparative study of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the
international financial crisis we are witnessing today, in which researchers from the People’s Bank
of China, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
the Development Research Center of the State Council, Peking University, and others partici-
pated. Each of these participants made excellent contributions, and this paper is the outcome of
their valuable work. Generally, financial and economic crises are one of the inherent features of
the capitalist system. Starting from the Industrial Revolution, crises have occurred frequently in
the capitalist world. Among them, the Great Depression in the 1930s and the present international
financial crisis are the two most widespread and disruptive examples, both of which occurred when
problems in the capitalist system accumulated beyond self-adjustment.
I. The Purpose, Methodology and Basic Logic
of the Study
1. The primary purpose of this study is to predict what changes may happen in the future by
understanding past events through comparison. This is chiefly because one of our tasks
is to navigate the ongoing financial crisis safely, and we wish to be able to respond more
proactively by learning from history. As soon as our work began, our strong curiosity was
aroused; our eagerness to arrive at conclusions has always sustained our interest in the
project.
2. While comprehension and judgment with respect to natural sciences are often attained
in laboratories, this is not possible in the social sciences.1
When statistics are scant and
the subject is abstract and wide ranging, an alternative way of conducting research is to
compare the subject at hand with what happened in the past. Just as there are long climate
change cycles in nature, so there exist some recurrent, similar historical phenomena in
economic and social fields, provided one considers a sufficient time span.2
Happily, the
two crises in question were actually separated by about 80 years; if one considers the con-
text leading up to the Great Depression, the time span for our comparative study exceeds
100 years. During these 100 years, the world experienced two major technology revolu-
tions and the two biggest booms and collapses. This makes the past century a valuable
period for comparative study.
3. Our research is based on the logic of historical cycles. We believe that cycles are not only
an inherent feature of historical changes and the natural world, but also an important part
1
Some scientific theories, such as those in cosmology, climatology, and life sciences cannot be proved by lab
experiments.
2
Kondratieff proposed in 1925 that there is a 45- to 50-year economic cycle driven by fixed investment in the capitalist
world. In 1939, Schumpeter suggested a technical, innovation-driven long economic cycle that lasts for 48 to 60 years.
In his 1979 book The Long Waves in Economic Life, Jacob van Duijn said that technical innovation has a life cycle
made up of four phases. In Unemployment and technical innovation: a study of long waves and economic develop-
ment, published in 1982, Christopher Freeman analyzes long technical cycles from the perspective of the relationship
between the proliferation of technical innovation and employment.
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of the capitalist system. History will repeat itself in a sufficiently long period of time;
economic and social development cycles come first in the form of boom-bust alterna-
tion. That is only the starting point of our analysis.3
The principal task of our research is
to identify the sequence and the degree of similarity of the remarkable events in the two
booms and depressions. To put it more precisely, we attempt to understand the similar-
ity of the technical and economic circumstances before the two crises, depict the char-
acteristics of government behavior and public psychology against such backgrounds,
and describe the macro trajectories of the two crises in order to provide a foundation for
decision-making in response to the present crisis.
4. History repeats itself in a linear as well as a nonlinear way. There are logical, clear-cut
laws of change, surprises that defy logic, and even many inexplicable historical conun-
drums happening at the same time. All of this makes our research intriguing and difficult.
In this report we identify the differences between the two crises and sum up their com-
mon features before coming to our preliminary policy conclusions. The historical events
studied and the objects for comparison are so massive and the time spent on document
consultation and data comparison was so limited that we are compelled to use a broad-
brush approach, in which we focus on the question of “what is it” instead of “why is it.”
Even the job of describing “why is it” is a difficult one. This skeletal study, therefore, is
only a starting point for further in-depth exploration.
II. Differences between the Two Crises
Before looking at what the two crises have in common, it is necessary to note their major differ-
ences. Obviously, the two crises wreaked havoc on human society in different degrees. In terms
of initial impacts, the Great Depression of 1929 caused much greater losses to GDP and business
than the present crisis. But the recent crisis has played out in a more complex way with the US
unemployment rate at around 9% for more than two years, home prices still depressed, and the
recovery process full of twists and turns.As the European sovereign debt crisis deepens, economic,
social and political factors reinforce one another in a vicious cycle, and uncertainty and risk have
continued to rise. Generally speaking, despite its smaller short-term damage, the recent crisis may
require more time for correction, and its deep impact is hard to estimate. In sum, the two crises
differ in the following ways:
1. Demographic structure. The demographic structure of a society, particularly its age structure,
is essential to economic and social development and plays an important role in a government’s
public policy. When the Great Depression hit, people were generally younger, and the middle in-
come class was smaller with lower education levels. In the ongoing crisis, people are much older,
with aging societies particularly in the developed world.4
The proportion of the middle class has
risen and education levels are higher. The welfare system and the age factor have weakened the
labor force’s market adaptability; people are more ready to keep what has been around than to
change.
3
Please see the description of the economic cycle in Das Kapital by Karl Marx.
4
Take the US for example. People aged 65 or above accounted for 5.3% of the population in 1929, and 12.6% in 2007.
(Source: US Census Bureau)
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2. Technological conditions. The Great Depression erupted after the second technology revolu-
tion while the latest crisis happened following the third one. After the two revolutions, technologi-
cal advancement accelerated across the world. In the military field in particular, the development
of nuclear weapons gave major powers the ability to check and balance one another, and few
countries today pin their hopes of resolving conflicts through world wars. Indeed, the “balance
of terror” brought about by nuclear forces has been instrumental in maintaining world peace.
Additionally, the recent financial crisis has transpired in a context of sophisticated information
technology, which would in turn increase risk proliferation and resonance, spreading the crisis
more rapidly to a greater extent and giving rise to more palpable synchronized market volatility.
3. Evolved economic and social systems in the developed world. In the wake of the Great
Depression, most capitalist countries set up a social security system by drawing on the doctrine of
socialism. The practice of macroeconomic management came into being and has continued to be
improved upon, and a system of stabilizers and brakes has been installed to safeguard economic
and social development. In response to the recent financial crisis, major developed world govern-
ments, drawing lessons from the Great Depression, implemented direct interventions immediately,
which helped reverse the free fall of their economies in a short time. For these reasons, the recent
crisis has created less short-term economic and social damage than the Great Depression.
4. Extent of globalization. In the context of the United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank,
interdependence among countries has increased significantly.5
Nowadays, with the fiat money sys-
tem entrenched worldwide, a managed floating exchange rate regime has replaced the old gold
standard. Increasingly open capital markets have made cross-border investment a commonplace
phenomenon,6
and multinationals’global presence has entangled the interests of any single country
with those of others. Although there are bouts of protectionism and beggar-thy-neighbor policies,
they are destined to be short-lived because they eventually hurt their own governments, businesses
and consumers.
5.The rise of emerging markets and different global economic situations. The Great Depression
was a crisis of the capitalist world that badly rocked underdeveloped countries from the outside.
Poor countries could do nothing but bear the aftermath, unable to drive up the global economy.
This time around, things are different. Shifts have appeared in the world power structure.7
While
domestic demand dropped in developed countries, new economic powerhouses have emerged,
providing greater support for the weak world economy through their strong demand. The global
economic crisis may spread from the center to the periphery, but the periphery’s influence on the
center is powerful.
5
Global trade accounted for 16.7% of world GDP in 1928, and 51.6% in 2007. (Source: Ministry of Commerce
website)
6
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown rapidly worldwide since the 1980s. In 1980, FDI totaled $519 billion,
and increased 5% annually to $1.833 trillion in 2007, faster than the world GDP growth of 3.4% over the same period.
(Sources: IMF website, Wind database)
7
The aggregate output of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, excluding the US, Europe and Japan, represented 23.3%
of world GDP in 1929, and advanced to 42.6% in 2010. In 2009, when the financial crisis deepened, BRIC countries
contributed 90% of global economic growth. (Sources: A Millennium History of the World Economy, www.people.
com.cn)
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III. Common Features of the Two Crises
By comparing the common features of the two crises from the perspective of political economy,
we arrived at ten preliminary conclusions.
1. Both crises occurred after a major technology revolution. According to long-wave theory,
technological innovation begets economic booms, which in turn cause depressions. A major tech-
nology revolution may lead to a big boom, followed inevitably by a great depression, in a con-
spicuous cyclical manner. The Great Depression of 1929 happened after the second technology
revolution, while the recent crisis appeared after the “third wave.”8
A big technology revolution
always unleashes productive potential. It not only changes the productive function and creates a
“destructive”/innovative effect, but also has a far-reaching, fundamental impact on social struc-
tures, geopolitical conditions and relative national power. If adjustment of the relations of produc-
tion lags behind productivity growth that was driven by technological innovation and changes in
superstructure are slower than those in economic foundation, then the potential risk of crisis will
certainly intensify. Regarding this topic, the famous economist Joseph Schumpeter made very ac-
curate descriptions, and Kondratieff also did a great deal of research. As our comparative study
shows, one difference between the two crises is that the ongoing financial crisis took much less
time to materialize after technology had been revolutionized. While more than 60 years elapsed
between the electrical technology revolution in 1870 and the Great Depression in 1929, the current
crisis broke out only 30-odd years after the onset of the IT revolution in 1980. A lesson for us is
that when a future technology revolution arrives, we must not only understand its progressive role
and grasp any opportunities that come with it, but also be fully aware of its significant consequen-
tial changes and be well-prepared for its shocks and challenges.
2. Both crises were preceded by unprecedented economic booms, when the relevant admin-
istrations had adopted extremely laissez-faire policies. In the years before 1929, US President
Calvin Coolidge had adhered to an economic policy known as laissez-faire, under which the gov-
ernment remained silent on the market economy’s operations and allowed financial interest groups
to play a decisive role in pushing the easing of regulation and financial liberalization. During that
period new technologies were applied primarily in the electrical power and automotive indus-
tries. Free competition substantially raised the concentration and monopoly of major industries.
Industrial conflict was somewhat relieved thanks to economic prosperity. But the weak agricultural
sector was relatively backward, laying the seeds of industrial imbalances, wider income gaps and
more speculative activity. Nevertheless, the laissez-faire policy helped create the well-known pe-
riod of “Coolidge Prosperity.” Before the present financial crisis, both the Clinton and the George
W. Bush Administrations, urged by the powerful industrial and financial interest groups, had fol-
lowed an economic liberalization policy, which to some extent was similar to or exceeded Ronald
Reagan’s policy in freeing the economy and loosening regulation. Application of new technologies
had hugely boosted the IT and telecommunications industry and the Internet economy. A housing
boom loomed and the US experienced the longest economic boom ever seen in human history. It
8
The second technology revolution, driven by the widespread application of electrical technology, began in the 1870s
and ended by World War II. The “third wave” characterized by computers, atomic technology, and aerospace technol-
ogy started in 1945. IBM introduced the first personal computer in 1978, ushering in an information revolution of and
new forms of economic activity driven by information technology.
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was held optimistically that on the strength of Internet technology the traditional business cycle
was gone forever. During the two boom periods, the combination of economic liberalization and
entrepreneurship led to exceptionally high growth rates, but was also responsible for the subse-
quent woes. Obviously, manufacturing is in decline in developed countries, where more and more
workers are unable to adapt themselves to the fast-changing industrial structure, and the over-
indebtedness model has proved very risky. (See Table 1 and Chart 1 below)
Table 1: Shifts in U.S. Industrial Structure before the Two Crises
Before the Great Depression Before the 2008 Crisis
1919–1929 1980–2007
Emerging
Industries
Radio sales increased from $45
million to $842 million.
Financial and housing sectors
rose from 15.1% of GDP to
20.7%
Auto output rose from 1.5 million
to 5.4 million units.
IT industry climbed from 3.9% of
GDP to 8.7%.
Construction increased from $12
billion to $17.5 billion.
Business service sector increased
from 6.2% of GDP to 12.1%.
Traditional
Industries
Agriculture was in recession. Meat
exports fell 88.9% in value, wheat
exports decreased 33.3%. The
farm bankruptcy rate rose from
6.4% to 17.7%.
The proportion of manufacturing
in GDP fell from 20% to 11.6%.
Coal, textile, clothing, leather and
other traditional industries con-
tracted in various degrees.
(Sources: World History of the 20th Century,
edited by Zhejiang University History Department, Wind Database)
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Chart 1: Loose Financial Regulation in the U.S. before the Two Crises
3. Yawning income gaps signified the crises. Another feature shared by the two crises is that be-
fore their occurrence wealth had been concentrated in the hands of a minority of rich people (Chart
2). The Great Depression highlighted the contradiction between private possession of wealth and
socialized mass production in the form of over-capacity of production and inadequate effective
demand. The current crisis is more closely related to globalization, the Internet, the knowledge-
based economy, increasing virtualization of the economy and demographic changes in different
countries. It is most noteworthy that the nominal title to the means of production has been sepa-
rated from the real right of disposal so that powers have been monopolized by the elite in the
virtual economy. Distribution gaps exist not only between different social groups within a coun-
try, but also between traditional developed countries and emerging markets. With the growth of
globalization and the Internet, an interdependent triangle has formed in the world economy, where
emerging markets (EM) act as global manufacturing centers, resource-rich countries supply raw
materials and energy, and the developed world drives EM countries’ capacity utilization through
debt-financed spending. Despite its variable forms, the gap between over-capacity and inadequate
demand remains the central problem.
Strengthen regulation Strengthen regulation
Deregulation periodThe Laissez-faire Era
The Great
Depression
The International
Financial Crisis
1863 1913 ...... 1929 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1939 ...... 1970 1989 1994 1997 1999 ...... 2008 2009 2010
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Chart 2: Income Gap in the U.S. Hits All-time Highs prior to the Two Crises
(Incomes of the 1% wealthiest families as a percentage of the total income)
(Source: The World Top Incomes Database, Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty
and Emmanuel Saez.)
4. When there was little room for public policy, populist policies adopted by developed world
governments helped fuel the crises. Psychological stresses due to technological changes and
widening income gaps caused public discontent. Due to their inability to reform and election con-
siderations, governments tended to resort to populist policy announcements to appease the public.
Before the Great Depression, the U.S. president had promised “two cars in every garage and a
chicken in every pot,” while before the present crisis, the two presidents undertook to improve
home ownership.9
Since the late 1990s, tax revenues of EU countries as a percentage of GDP
have continued to fall while spending on social welfare programs has risen, resulting in an over-
supply of social welfare, which few politicians have the determination or guts to axe. Populist
promises have changed people’s expectations of welfare, increased their reliance on government,
and unwound their commitment to individual struggle, leading to an extremely corrosive effect.
The critical problem is that once public expectations of welfare are unmet, public psychology will
reverse quickly to a strong sentiment that makes people flout authorities, resist reform and resent
successful peers. Meanwhile, fiscal indebtedness and welfare beyond earning capabilities have
become a habit, which reinforces itself in both the public and private sectors, and created problems
during the ongoing European debt crisis. With regard to this problem, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater
Associates, LP brilliantly describes the public and private deleveraging processes in his article
“The Beautiful Deleveraging.” According to Dalio, every 70 years, a high level of indebtedness
will be accompanied by an economic crisis (Chart 3) when wage growth outpaces productivity and
debts rise significantly faster than tax revenues.
9
In 1995, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and President Bill Clinton released the “National
Homeownership Strategy” with the goal of “reaching all-time high national homeownership levels by the end of the
century.” In October 2004, President George W. Bush said in a reelection speech that “America is a stronger country
every single time a family moves into a house of their own.”
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Chart 3: US Debt Ratio,1870–2010
(Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)
5. In both cases, people had become extremely speculative psychologically, persuading them-
selves that they could get rich overnight. The epic industrial growth and gargantuan gaps in
incomes and distributions before the two crises distorted public psychology in the capitalist world.
A yearning to change their social status had spurred people to dream about making huge fortunes
overnight. People would easily buy various stories of speculative miracles, and their avarice and
forgetfulness ballooned to an unheard-of degree. Few people could resist the temptation of indus-
trial bubbles. With a general impulsive mindset and encouraged by an easy monetary environment
and financial innovations centered on leveraging up, people rushed into highly risky speculative
activities with borrowed money, contributing to enormous asset bubbles—equity bubbles before
the Great Depression and housing bubbles before the present crisis. As described by the US econo-
mist John Galbraith, when the economy is overheated, no one doubts the continued inflation of the
bubble. Instead of accepting reasons that cool their minds, people seek reasons that justify their
blind adventures. It is certain that in specific historical periods and systems, people’s self-inflated
persuasive power and impetuosity are major causes of crises. A relevant question thus arises: Does
the rational actor hypothesis of economics hold true forever?
6. The two crises were linked to monetary policy. Prior to the two crises, the handiest tool had
been easier monetary and credit policy. While floods of credit before the Great Depression had
generated equity bubbles and speculative fevers, the Fed’s extremely easy monetary policy, loose
financial supervision and subprime mortgage loans (which reached historical highs before the
present crisis) fueled the hyperinflation of economic bubbles. To deal with the pressure of bubble-
induced consumer price hikes, the monetary authority had to tighten, leading to the bursting of
bubbles, a shift in speculators’ expectations, and the occurrence of what would occur sooner or
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later (Chart 4). The main difference is that around the Great Depression of 1929 there was no
explicit macroeconomic guidance, but the current financial crises happened in a context of macro-
economic policy, with its long-standing subordination to political and election priorities. The two
crises are similar in that the monetary authority lacked an accurate understanding of macroeco-
nomic situations. In the former crisis, the Fed’s policy makers generally had no awareness of ag-
gregate demand management, while in the latter one, the Fed held a flawed comprehension of the
globalized world economy and a monetary policy the U.S. should have pursued as an international
reserve currency country.
Chart 4: Monetary Policy before the Two Crises
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7. In both crises, policy makers were faced with three challenges: populism, nationalism
and economic problems that were turned into political and ideological ones. Market forces
continued to challenge unconvincing government policies, making the situations even worse.
In response to the severe crises, the major countries involved would invariably commit the same
mistakes and miss out on the best opportunities when they should take actions. In particular, a
tightening policy was pursued while an expansionary policy was necessary; protectionism pre-
vailed while the policy of opening-up and international cooperation was in need; and efforts to
slash social welfare programs and boost structural reforms were impeded or even rolled back.10
Although these obvious errors are ridiculous from the vantage point of hindsight, it was very dif-
ficult for the policy makers concerned to implement the right policies at that time. This is because
such big crises tend to happen once in a lifetime, and policy makers lacked experience and had to
deal with populism, insular nationalism and economic problems with heavy political implications.
Politicians were hijacked by short-term public opinion and mired in political gridlocks, afraid of
breaking ideological constraints. This has almost become a behavioral pattern, most evident in the
unfolding of the recent Greek crisis. Meanwhile, making profits from market volatility is the very
nature of financial capitalists. With weak government policies in place, international financial mar-
ket forces would be more than happy to take advantage of chaotic situations, and when combined
with political forces in the wilderness, put the authorities at peril. It should be noted that the market
forces that played a role in the two crises were highly politicized. Therefore, attacking economic
problems without coping with their political implications would lead to devastating misjudgments.
10
In 2012, the European debt crisis continued to develop, with public opinion in France, Greece, and Spain turning to
the left. Nationalism and ultra-leftist and ultra-rightist forces have risen remarkably. When governments in the election
year were compelled to meet public opinion halfway, many policies that helped to solve debt problems were hard to
implement, leading to a rapid increase of the debt risk.
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8. There was a particular pattern by which a crisis developed. A recovery would not be at
hand until the whole path of the crisis was covered. It seems that a crisis process is full of sur-
prises caused by low probability events and luck. But actually this is not true. Once the economy
veers from normal to crisis mode, it starts taking on an unusual cycle. Both crises would com-
mence from an economic crash, deepening from the bursting of bubbles to soaring unemploy-
ment, from economic stress to social conflicts, and extending from economic and social sectors
to political or even military fields. To deal with high rates of indebtedness, the government would
tighten fiscal policy, introducing the onset of a deleveraging process, before the stresses due to the
bursting of economic bubbles are relieved by currency devaluation and debt restructuring. Then,
before the economy came to a turn, rising inflation and equity markets would produce a specious
recovery. Soon the economy would nosedive again. As it happened during the Great Depression
of 1929, so it did in the present international financial crisis. While the U.S. financial crisis was
relieved after some time, the European debt crisis deteriorated unexpectedly across all countries
involved, elevating the systemic risk quickly and probably plunging the global economy into the
second phase of danger.
Similarly, domestic contradictions that accumulated to a certain degree would transfer liabilities
abroad. New equilibrium would not be reached until the full process of a crisis wore out. Thus a
big crisis is destined to be a long-lasting one once it is ignited. The extreme consequences of the
Great Depression were Adolf Hitler’s seizure of power through civil election and the outbreak of
World War II. At this point, we must be on alert for any unexpected events that will always crop up
while the crisis is still developing, as well as for a string of runaway developments and miscalcula-
tions. Currently, the European debt crisis is deepening, and situations in the Middle East remain
unstable. Faced with intertwined economic, political, social, historical and cultural conflicts, we
must be well prepared for any major risk potentially arising out of the ongoing crisis. (Chart 5)
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Chart 5: A Succession of Unexpected Events Occurred during Crises
(Source: Reuters Ecowin)
9. Only after the crises had reached their most difficult phase, an effective solution appeared,
which often represented a major theoretical breakthrough. Following the Great Depression,
the Keynes Revolution emerged in a world of despair. Although Keynes’s theory is revitalized
in the current crisis, the aging population, global capacity gluts, reduced potential productivity
caused by greater restrictions on natural resources and more “sticky” labor markets have led the
policy of purely expanding aggregate demand to a cul-de-sac. Meanwhile, negative effects due to
the global deflationary pressure and the mounting European sovereign debt have surfaced, pushing
the world economy into a very difficult and complex terrain once again.
The eye-catching research combining psychology, economics and political science done a while
ago and the current increasing interest in state capitalism suggest that the world is expecting the
arrival of a new theory. The new theory may relate to the most substantive and difficult question:
contractions in world aggregate demand, imbalances in the global distribution of capital, technol-
ogy and labor, plus the disappointing growth of a few countries, which have caused domestic
social and political problems and contaminated the whole world rapidly. There has been no clear
clue regarding how to solve this question. A viable solution to this global, complex question is
badly needed, as individual countries in a globalized world are clearly short of capabilities while
big countries are reluctant to cooperate. A worsening world economy has once again produced an
immense pressure to change, as we saw at the recent EU summit. We must also remind ourselves
that despite the importance of theoretical innovation, whether the world economy is able to come
out of the crisis soon will largely depend on external luck, which is corroborated by what happened
in the last stage of the Great Depression.
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10. The crises had a strong redistribution effect, which would cause shifts of power among
large countries and major changes in international economic order. Once again Kissinger’s
Law may be validated. In his famous book Diplomacy, Kissinger pointed out that a new world
power will emerge every 100 years. His assertion may be proved by the two crises in question.
The post–Great Depression era saw a shift of world economic focus from Europe to America and
a sweeping change in the world economic and political fabric, whereby the United States began to
play a leading role in the global economy, the U.S. dollar ascended to dominance and the United
Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created. Since the current
crisis, the global growth center has been moving to the Asia-Pacific region, the G20 forum has
been formed, and the relative power of nations has been changing fast, contributing to a change in
the international economic order. In this sense, despite its interruption of productivity growth, the
crisis has released a positive, creative power and has produced a notable redistribution effect. In
conclusion, after a big crisis, what is to be redistributed is not merely wealth within a country, but
the relative power of all nations. The redistribution effect is irresistible, and the world economic
order will continue to experience a steady and irreversible change. (Chart 6)
Chart 6: Relative Economic Strength of Nations before and after the Crises
(Source: China Economic Information Network)
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IV. Three Policy Recommendations
A comparison of the two crises has given us many thought-provoking ideas and revelations. In
view of China’s drive toward a more efficient growth pattern and a well-off society, we recom-
mend three policy options as follows for consideration.
1. Be prepared for extreme cases by designing responses to the worst possible scenario be-
forehand. Conclusions drawn from our comparative study and the fast worsening European debt
crisis tell us that we should always be conscious of extreme cases and stay prepared for the worst
consequences, but at the same time strive for the best possible results. We should try to not only
effectively deal with abrupt exogenous shocks and impacts, but make long-term preparations for
structural changes resulting from a crisis. Only in this way could we survive any crisis. At present,
there are two scenarios in particular we must guard against: 1) huge external shocks from a dete-
riorating crisis; and 2) wars waged by some countries to shift crisis-related disaster. Although they
are low-probability events in the near future, we must take precautions before they materialize.
2. Understand the changed implications of our strategic opportunities to seek the widest
intersection between Chinese and global interests. Our comparative study also reveals that the
implications of strategic opportunities for China have changed significantly. From an economic
perspective, our strategic opportunities before the current crisis were overseas market expansion
and international capital inflows. By taking such opportunities, China has become a global manu-
facturing center. Going into the current crisis, the world has embarked on a long process of weak
aggregate demand and deleveraging, in which our strategic opportunities take the forms of the
domestic market driving a world economic recovery, acquisition of technologies of developed
countries, and investment in infrastructure. We should firmly grasp these substantial changes, ana-
lyze the large intersection of interests between China and other major economies under new cir-
cumstances, propose our solution to the problem of a slowing global economy, and implement it
gradually when external conditions become clear.
3. Concentrate on our own affairs and conduct practical, forward-looking research on im-
portant subjects. Our comparative study also tells us that putting our domestic affairs in order,
no matter what happens in the international arena, is the foundation for tackling external impacts
and realizing our peaceful rise in the world. Drawing lessons from the emergence of great powers
in history, we should always warn ourselves not to be easily embroiled in international conflicts.
Instead, we should focus on really important matters to substantially improve our domestic con-
ditions. As our country is coming to a critical point on its road to general prosperity, we suggest
that a top-level design approach be adopted to study those matters that require concerted efforts.
Especially, we should broaden our global horizon, strengthen quantitative research, and make our
research results more workable.
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