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A Chinese woman pushes her way to the front of a hiring queue outside a factory in Shenzhen -- A Bolivian miner, without light or ventilation, crawls deep inside a deserted mine -- A group of Somali cleaners files into an investment bank in London's Canary Wharf -- Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago.

Paul Mason, Vintage, 7 February 2008

The Rise of the Dragon: Inward and Outward Investment in China in the Reform Period

Presents an accessible history of China as a trading entity, an overview of China's economic development over the last 30 years, and then focuses on China as a destination for inward investment, and as an outward investor, something that has only been happening in the last few years and is historically unprecedented.

Kerry Brown, Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, 1 February 2008

How Asia bails out America
The Federal Reserve’s ‘shock’ slashing of interest rates was only the latest episode in a drawn-out drama starring Western sluggishness and Eastern dynamism.
Daniel Ben Ami, spiked, 24 January 2008

The midwife of miserabilism
With its attacks on advertising, opulence and environmental filth, John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society, published 50 years ago, anticipated today’s small-minded growth scepticism.
Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked, 9 January 2008

The truth about the ‘credit crunch’
What the Subprime Crisis reveals about the economy, politics and the state in 2008 – and why the real story is the rise of the East as the West flounders.
Phil Mullan, spiked, 7 January 2008

Individualists Who Cooperate: Education and Welfare Reform Befitting a Free People

The government is trying to do too much. We need to reframe the constitutional settlement that defines the relationship between the state and the individual in civil society. The state should be confined to the legitimate tasks that are within its competence, thus allowing greater scope for private enterprise and social entrepreneurs to supply public services more effectively.

David Green, Civitas, 2 January 2008

There's no new 'scramble for Africa'
China’s relationship with Africa is no threat to the West - all the major economies are gaining from a continent that is no longer a ‘basket case’.
Stuart Simpson, spiked, 4 December 2007

The Limits of a Smaller, Poorer China
In a little-noticed mid-summer announcement, the Asian Development Bank presented official survey results indicating China's economy is smaller and poorer than established estimates say.
Albert Keidel, Financial Times, 14 November 2007

How fit is the panda?
China's booming economy is helping to support global growth as America turns sickly. So now it has to keep up the pace.
The Economist, 27 September 2007

Meet the consultants who deliver deliverables
Management consultancy is such a broad field it is no surprise that not too many of us know exactly what it is that these people do
Carly Chynoweth, The Times, 27 September 2007

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The Credit Crunch Demystified - The market has hollowed out

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