Introduction Peter Nolan 1. Making a Choice Under Pressure 2. Detrimental Effects of Redundancy 3. Breakdown of Natural Resources 4. The Economy of Waste 5. Humans and Entropy 6. Making a Fresh Start 7. Engel’s Law 8. The Principle of Equivalence 9. Overcoming Barriers 10. A Blueprint for Reconstruction 11. Desperate Measures are Called for Afterword – Interviews with Deng Yingtao in Hospital in the Last Year of his Life
Biography
Deng Yingtao was Director of the Economics and Cultural Research Centre of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Nicky Harman is the translator of the text. Dr Harman used to lecture at Imperial College London, UK and now works full-time as a literary translator.
Peter Nolan, Director of the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, wrote the foreword.
Phil Hand is the translator of the Afterword. He studied Chinese and linguistics at Cambridge, interpreting at Shanghai International Studies University and translation at Birmingham. He specialises in translating social science research.
