TY - BOOK AU - Kroeber,Arthur R. TI - China's economy: what everyone needs to know SN - 9780190239039 U1 - 330.951 PY - 2016///] ©2016 CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Economic development -- KW - China KW - China -- KW - Economic policy -- KW - 2000- N2 - In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America. Kroeber helps you navigate the complexities of a capitalist economy governed by an authoritarian Communist Party that shows no sign of loosening its grip ER -