"China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path. In the first...

The History of Economic Thought as a field has long taken it as a premise that so far as ancient economic thought is concerned, only the Greeks and Romans are worth studying. This paper introduces the Guanzi as a core text in ancient Chinese economic thought on price stabilization from a...

We propose a Fair New Deal for Germany. First, the German government needs to implement a public investment package that puts the German economy on a prolonged growth path. The main mechanisms of this first component of the Fair New Deal are electricity price controls, expansion of public...

American radical economists in the 1960s perceived China under Maoism as an important experiment in creating a new society, aspects of which they hoped could serve as a model for the developing world. But the knowledge of “actually existing Maoism” was very limited due to the mutual...

The next German government faces unprecedented challenges, with economic stagnation and shifting geopolitical landscapes threatening the country's growth model and sovereignty. The German economy, traditionally reliant on exports to China and the United States, faces mounting pressures from...