
How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber
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The Near Shock Therapy Crisis of 88
The 19 88 crisis had serious consequences, luding the protest movement in tianaman square and the government massacre that repressed it. And after the massacre, proponents of gradualism were side lined or purged. By contrast, you write that shock therapy proponents enjoyed stellar careers. How did the near shock treatment crisis of 88 create the conditions that led to the student movement and then the government repression? Why was it, or how was it, that the official interpretation of tieniman square led to proponents of shock therapy being rewarded, while the gradualists who had warrnd against precisely that sort of crisis were punished? Yes. So i think this also relates to your previous question on whether the
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