Junior Economics Tutorial: China in the Global Economy
CSS 320
Spring 2017
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| Certificates: International Relations |
China is a country that is both transitioning to a market-oriented economy and developing rapidly into a global economic power. As such, it has characteristics of both an emerging market economy and a developing country. China is large enough to create its own institutional infrastructure to support a third way between capitalism and socialism. This course examines in detail China's great economic transformation beginning in 1978 in what is often described as a "gradualist" transition to a market economy. In the last three and a half decades, the speed of China's development and its growth rates of GDP are without precedent in history.
China entered the current decade with an unbalanced economy highly dependent on both state-financed investment through a state-controlled financial sector and exports of finished goods to sustain its high growth rates. The previous leadership espoused creating a harmonious society. The current leadership recognizes the need both to promote more domestic-fueled growth by increasing consumption and to achieve more broad-based economic development. Many social issues remain to be tackled, among which are environmental degradation, income inequality, and an aging workforce. After developing the economic background that propelled China rapidly into middle-income-country status, this course consider these remaining issues (and others) to provide insights into the fundamental question of what is left to be done to create a fully mature, developed economic system in China. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ECON |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 - 3rd Quarter |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Texts (available for purchase at Broad Street Books)
Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, MIT Press, 2007 Paper ISBN10-0-262-64064-3
Lin, Justin Yifu, Demystifying the Chinese Economy, Cambridge University Press 2012 Paper ISBN1978-0-521-18174-7
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly response papers |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Open to CSS Juniors Only |
| Instructor(s): Bonin,John P. Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC421; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 10 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
| SECTION 02 - 4th Quarter |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Same as Section 01 Above |
| Examinations and Assignments: Same as Section 01 Above |
| Additional Requirements and/or Comments: Same as Section 01 Above |
| Instructor(s): Bonin,John P. Times: .....F. 02:00PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC421; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 10 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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