Interactions Between China's Growth Model and the Financial System -- Interests, Ideas, Institutions and The Politics of Banking and Economic Reform in China -- Growth Model Reform and the Banks as the State's Cashier, 1979-1996 -- Quick Fix Banking Reforms after the Asian Crisis, 1997-2002 --...

BANKING ON GROWTHMODELS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Interactions between China's Growth Model and the Financial System -- 2. Interests, Ideas, Institutions, and the Politics of Banking and Economic Reform in China -- 3. Growth...

Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor compare banking systems in the U.S. and UK to those of Canada and Australia and explain why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Canadian and Australian banks were able to make profits through traditional lending practices, unlike their...