Hu Jintao and State Capitalism: Rethinking Chinas Domestic and Regional Role

Rethinking Capitalism from a Geographical Perspective

Anglophone research in economic geography can be characterized by two separate, contested paradigms: Geographical economics (building on the work of the economists Krugman, Venables and Fujita), and geographical political economy (prevalent within geography). Elaborating on the latter, this paper explores what it means to think geographically about the (capitalist) economy. Focusing on geograph...

Rethinking the Role of Domestic Support in Distorting Trade

Until the Uruguay Round Agreement (URAA) domestic support received less attention and it was URAA explicitly addressed the trade distortions arising out of domestic support policies in agriculture. The theories on trade distortions however claim the supremacy of border measures in distorting trade. A number of empirical studies also hold the same line of view. There are a number of reasons for ...

china and development of relations with latin america (hu jintao era)

the purpose of this article is to deal with causes and trends of china and latin america foreign policy in hu jintao era. before hu presidency, china had more tendency to promoting relations with the west, but during this period (hu’s era) third world countries like africa and latin america countries gained their precedent positions in china foreign policy. the main question raised here, is “wh...

Reinventing State Capitalism

The Domestic Segment of Global Supply Chains In China under State Capitalism

Abstract This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we split the conventional IO table into sub-accounts, which are used to estimate direct and in...