Economics 208 - Develop. & Transition in China

This course first explores institutional changes reshaping the Chinese economy and larger society over the past three and a half decades and then focuses on the interplay of current structures of the economy with non-economic (political, cultural, and environmental) processes in generating rapid economic growth and relative macroeconomic stability. Recent reforms in financial institutions and financial relationships, as a nexus in the transformation and globalization of the Chinese economy, will receive special attention and serve as the entry point into an analysis of the potential for future economic/financial crises.