Ezra Klein Archive: China
What to worry about when you're worrying about China
There's a lot of good stuff in Nick Kristof's overview of contemporary Chinese politics, but this is the part most relevant to the topics I cover: Trade is at the heart of the tensions [between America and China], and...
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| January 20, 2011; 4:34 PM ET |
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The most important two sentences I've read on China's economy
From David Leonhardt's terrific piece on the same: Saying that China does not have a big-enough consumer economy is really another way of saying that not enough of its resources reach the broad mass of its people. If they...
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| November 29, 2010; 10:30 AM ET |
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Why China has so many fake divorces
China is facing a large real-estate bubble driven in part by newly affluent Chinese buying properties as investments. The Chinese government knows this, so they've imposed a one-house-per-family rule. But as Patrick Chovanec explains, it isn't working out as they...
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| November 22, 2010; 9:00 AM ET |
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Markets for everything -- including creating new markets
China wants a dynamic, innovative economy. And that means patents. So China wants its citizens to apply for lots of patents. And so: Professors who do so are more likely to win tenure. Workers and students who file patents are...
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| October 18, 2010; 5:07 PM ET |
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Problems ahead for China's banks?
Patrick Chovanec is an associate professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing. Prior to that, he worked for several private equity funds focused on China, and continues to serve as a fund adviser. He's also got...
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| June 9, 2010; 1:22 PM ET |
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Is China in a housing bubble?
Patrick Chovanec is an associate professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China. Prior to that, he worked for several private equity funds focused on China, and continues to serve as a fund adviser. He's also...
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| June 9, 2010; 10:42 AM ET |
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