O caminho do capitalismo chinês

How China Became Capitalist
By Ronald Coase and Ning Wang
256 pages; Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
A 2010 GlobeScan opinion poll shows
that more Chinese (67 percent)
than Americans (59 percent) strongly or
somewhat agree that “[t]he free market
system and free market economy is the
best system on which to base the future
of the world.” Most analysts never suspected
that the communist giant would,
in three decades, become a capitalist (or
near-capitalist) country and go from one
of the poorest countries in the world to
the second largest economy and the largest
trading nation.
In How China Became Capitalist, Ronald
Coase (the Nobel laureate in economics,
who will celebrate his 102nd birthday a few
days after this review appears) and Ning
Wang (professor in the School of Politics
and Global Studies of Arizona State University)
chronicle how China realized this
incredible feat. For the non-initiated—and
perhaps for the student of Chinese affairs,
too—their book is full of surprises.
How was the miracle accomplished?
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