{"product_id":"how-china-escaped-the-poverty-trap-9781501764561","title":"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017\" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow China Escaped the Poverty Trap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences.\"\u003cbr\u003e― Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed as \"game changing\" and \"field shifting,\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow China Escaped the Poverty Trap\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eadvances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: \"stimulate growth first,\" \"build good institutions first,\" or \"some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but \"directed improvisation\"--top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to \"use what you have\"--harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold and meticulously researched, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow China Escaped the Poverty Trap\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eopens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4152746\"\u003eYuen Yuen Ang\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501764561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150176456X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL023000\"\u003ePolitical Economy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BUS\"\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BUS022000\"\u003eEconomic Conditions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL024000\"\u003ePublic Policy | Economic Policy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuen Yuen Ang is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar, awarded by the American Political Science Association.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44520857567469,"sku":"9781501764561","price":46.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b5e68136-b684-40a2-a9e0-27392e9e6ed0.jpg?v=1701282177","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/how-china-escaped-the-poverty-trap-9781501764561","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}