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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: Excerpt: /372/ Reading Club: Globalisation (I)
Description:
On Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century
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We discuss the Introduction and Part 1 of this landmark book from 2008 and ask if Arrighi's vision of China, the West and the structure of the global economy was correct.
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Points discussed:
What's at stake in thinking of East Asian growth as a renaissance, or correction of the historical blip of European ascendency?
How compelling is the account of East Asian success as a fusion of industrious and industrial revolution?
Was Arrighi right to focus on the neoconservative Project for a New American Century?
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