01844nam a22002537a 4500 20220412161743.0 220412b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780316730204 AL English 23 330.951 HUTW Will Hutton 29704 Writing On The Wall: China And The West In The 21St Century Great Britain Little, Brown 2006 xii,431 p. PB 23x15 cm. The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from within that could well derail its rise and, in turn, deliver a crippling shock to the global economy. Britain, Europe and the US must recognise that they have a vital stake in assuring that collapse does not happen. China's effect on our lives is reflected in our house prices, the inequality in our wages and the prices we pay in our shops. Yet China is burdened by a weak enterprise system, growing social protest and environmental degradation. Hutton shows how the contradictions of an authoritarian state are fundamentally disabling and argues that if China is to complete the transition to capitalism upon which it has embarked, it has no choice but to embrace the mechanisms that make business and government accountable to people - from a free press to representative governance. This is a powerful warning that global peace and prosperity depend upon successful transition. International Economic Relations 29705 Economic History 29706 Economic Policy 29707 World Trade Organization 29708 Finance 29709 HUTTON (Will) 29710 ddc GF 222406 222406 0 0 ddc 0 0 ECO AL AL 2013-03-24 0 330.951 HUTW GF03100 2022-04-12 00:00:00 2022-04-12 GF