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But also, there is something essentially hopeful in his conclusions. At the heart of the 2007 Party Congress was the concept of balance and harmony amongst the competing needs (urban/rural, social/economic etc), and it is the unity of insightful control and intervention in economic matters, of NOT abdicating responsibility to just the operation of the market, but at the same time allowing space for human potential and energy which emerges. There lies a humane spirit just visible beneath the numbers.
This book really inhabits a very specialist world, but it is possible to find similar if not so academic territory explored in , for example, [[The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer]] which reviews the moment of monumental change from Maoism to the new vision of China. The issues of 'whither modern economies' is the subject of much popular non-fiction, and a stark contrast in style , as well as focus , is provided by [[How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo]]. You might also appreciate [[The Price of Fish A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions by Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris]].
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