The Great Leap Forwardaimed to use peasants in rural areas to jump-start an economic revolution through increased grain production. At the same time, the CPC urged peasants in newly formed communes and in city neighborhoods to take the first steps toward industrialization, forging steel through the...
Developing a company’s global strategy – which, by definition, includes a China strategy – requires a deep understanding of China’s evolving role in the new world, a basic knowledge of the fundamental reasons why and how China works, and a clear-eyed view of the implications of the new...
With its inherent beauty, remarkable versatility and exceptional strength, mass timber is emerging at the definitive sustainable building material of the 21st century.
For me, it's always a question of, 'Did Stalin make the revolution, or did the revolution make Stalin?' Mostly, I would have to say the revolution made Stalin." Stalin clearly has his place among history's most murderous ideologues. The numbers of dead under Stalin's rule (what came ...
Legislators had pushed more than 100 bills to address the issue of water pollution, but made little progress until industrialization and urbanization from World War II resulted in pollution in U.S. water systems that was so obvious Congress couldn't ignore it. This first act for anti-pollution...
From Spain and Portugal, mercantilism spread to the rest of Europe, which resumed its mercantile economic system by the 14th century. Over the next 500 years, mercantilism became what we now call capitalism. By the 19th century, capitalism was the dominant economic system in most of the ...
These miss the human element of the entrepreneur and how he/she can develop and spread ideas. Innovation and diffusion of innovation go well beyond patenting activity, as we can see with advances in Chinese capacity in a variety of industries. One can therefore have a good formal innovation ...
Global warming was not a problem before industrialization. This simple fact should belie the false narrative. Diana Rogers has been a champion for honest science in this debate. She is the only nutritionist to present information at the conference. She has recentlyposted on twitterthe slides prese...
which underpinned greater borrowing to finance industrialization. In the nineteenth century, the state was crucial in the regulation of labor markets and the development of the legal templates for corporate status. These historical examples show that markets need viable and well-governed states, as Ada...
People in America don’t like to admit it, or don’t know it, but the Civil War was about an economy divided by industrialization. We are experiencing the same thing again, as we move from industrialization to digitization, and unfortunately, the outcome will be exactly the same. Wolf, do...