This is a book about modern China, mainly about the economy (about half the text), but also about culture, history, religion, and politics. There are three main issues discussed in the book: (1) Why did China (and earlier other countries and territories of East Asia, largely based on the Chinese...

Despite the variety of indicators describing the economy of each country, a generalized qualitative description of the economy can be performed using the concept of the “economic image” of a certain country, indicating a key subsystem from among the traditionally distinguished tiers of the...

This paper examines the trajectory of growth in the Global South. Before the 1500s all countries were roughly at the same level of development, but from the 1500s Western countries started to grow faster than the rest of the world and PPP GDP per capita by 1950 in the US, the richest Western...

This paper examines the trajectory of growth in the Global South. Before the 1500s all countries were roughly at the same level of development, but from the 1500s Western countries started to grow faster than the rest of the world and PPP GDP per capita by 1950 in the US, the richest Western...

Russian Abstract: Предлагаемая статья посвящена малоизученной в научной литературе проблеме ликвидации институциональных дефицитов в нормативно-правовом обеспечении...