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The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis

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The Maoist Imprint in China

About 25% of the people that you studied qualified just basically in terms of that formative period of their lives that was spent, you know, marinating in Maoism. What percentage of the industrial output does that 25% of entrepreneurs represent though? I mean, is it a significant piece of the Chinese GDP? So my guess is that it is a significant part of the GDP. And this is not from our data per se. There are 15 million plus Chinese entrepreneurs. And I think it's over 60% of the GDP and so we can sort of extrapolate to the broader population to suggest it is.

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