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How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber

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What Is the Magician of Oz?

The economy of mais china was premised on squeezing the peasants to drive industrialization in the cities. How was this model structured? And how did its consequences, which included really horrific famine and mass starvation, shape china's economic policy debates? So, squeezing the passans is a title from an article written by robert ashe that is a very careful empirical analysis. Robert ashis fessor meredith from em from soas school of oriental and african sits in london.

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