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- Product code: 151044
- ISBN: 0316730181,
ISBN13: 9780316730181,
448 pages, hardback
Published by Little, Brown on 2007
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Description of The Writing on the Wall |
The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from within that could well derail its rise and, in turn, deliver a crippling shock to the global economy. Britain, Europe and the US must recognise that they have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen. China's effect on our lives is reflected in our house prices, the inequality in our wages and the prices we pay in our shops. Yet China is burdened by a weak enterprise system, growing social protest and environmental degradation. Hutton shows how the contradictions of an authoritarian state are fundamentally disabling and argues that if China is to complete the transition to capitalism upon which it has embarked, it has no choice but to embrace the mechanisms that make business and government accountable to people - from a free press to representative governance. This is a powerful warning that global peace and prosperity depend upon successful transition.
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Reviews"A middling effort at reconciling the interests of the Middle Kingdom and Middle America."
- Kirkus Reviews
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About Will Hutton |
Will Hutton is chief executive of the Work Foundation and columnist for the OBSERVER, where he was editor, then editor-in-chief for four years.
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