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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Description: Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)Pub date: 2022-03-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPrototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020) reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–8, shaped the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation. Author Silvia Lindtner unpacks ho...