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Maonomics : Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do by Loretta Napoleoni is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." Maonomics charts the prodigious ascent of the Chinese economic miracle and the parallel course of the West’s ongoing insistence on misconstruing China and its economy even as we acknowledge its growing influence and importance. Maonomics is a warning call whereby Western governments can avoid economic collapse by learning how to understand more clearly what the lessons of the Chinese economy really are. Based on first-hand reporting from China during frequent visits in the last several years, Maonomics lends credence to the Chinese view and translates it for Western readers. For example, the Chinese too are attached to their vision of democracy, but it is different from ours. It isn’t focused as much on voting as it is economic opportunity and the fair distribution of wealth and prosperity. Napoleoni also separates failed Leninist political ideology fr

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Author
Loretta Napoleoni
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781609803520
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Economics, Fiction, Political Science
Rating
3.45 / 5 (60 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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