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Escape from empire : the developing world's journey through heaven and hell
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Escape from empire : the developing world's journey through heaven and hell

Author: Alice H Amsden
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
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In Escape from Empire, Alice Amsden argues that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow. America's recent inflexibility - as it has single-mindedly imposed the same rules, laws, and institutions on all developing economies under its influence - has been the backdrop to the rise of two new giants, China and India, who have built economic power in their  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Amsden, Alice H. (Alice Hoffenberg)
Escape from empire.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)654705047
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alice H Amsden
ISBN: 9780262012348 0262012340
OCLC Number: 72354405
Description: vi, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Heaven can't wait --
Where the sun never sets, and wages never rise --
Trading earth for heaven --
Angel dust --
Gift of the Gods --
The light of the moon --
Dien Bien Phu: knowledge is eternal --
To hell in a straw basket --
America's fatwas --
The devil take the hindmost --
Great balls of fire.
Responsibility: Alice H. Amsden.
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Argues that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow, citing China, India, and other Asian escapees from America's strict free-market  Read more...

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"Amsden reveals with sparkle and insight how much developing countries can achieve when allowed to think for themselves."--Guo Shuqing, Chairman of the Board, China Construction Bank

 
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