Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do

Abstract

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue: Depressions in Progress -- Part One: Globalization and Communism -- 1. Exploitation Factories: Charles Dickens in Shenzhen -- 2. The Race to the Bottom -- 3. Chinese Nouvelle Cuisine: Marxism in a Neoliberal Sauce -- 4. Beyond the Great Wall -- 5. The Neoliberal Dream of Modernization -- Part Two: Globalization and Capitalism -- 6. The World Is Flat -- 7. Financial Neoliberalism as Predator -- 8. In Union There Is Strength -- 9. From Muhammad to Confucius -- 10. The Great Wall of Renewable Energy -- Part Three: Globalization and Democracy: A Shotgun Wedding -- 11. Looking at Washington and Beijing through Chinese Eyes -- 12. Late Imperial Spin: Osama bin Laden as the Modern Attila -- 13. Saboteurs of the Nation-State -- 14. Supply-Side Economics -- 15. The Full Monty -- 16. Mediacracy -- 17. The Thousand Evitas of Berlusconi -- Part Four: Images of the Future -- 18. Scenes from a Marriage -- 19. The Last Frontier -- 20. Globalization and Crime -- 21. Rousseau in Chinese Characters -- Epilogue: China Hands -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- About the Author -- About Seven Stories Press.