Introduction: Looking Beyond Beijing 1. An operational version of the Chinese social contract 2. The victims of growth 3. The Chinese hyper-competitive environment: “Animal Spirits” and the “Chinese Dream.” 4. 9–9-6, 4–2-1, and 310, some Chinese magical numbers 5. “To be a scholar is to be at the top of society”: Education’s role in the meritocracy with Chinese characteristics 6. Neijuan (内卷) and the Chinese education system today 7. Real Estate, excess savings and decision-making under extreme uncertainty 8. Chinese vox populi, an oxymoron? 9. Hukou 10. Local cadres, bottom-up development, and the real story of market reforms 11. Institutional agility and consistency 12. Entrepreneurship under uncertain property rights: "No matter if a cat is white or black; as long as it catches rats, it is a good cat." 13. The limits of Statist China; SOEs dual-mandate 14. The small or imaginary risks for the Chinese economic system 15. The real risks for the Chinese economy
Biography
Rodrigo Zeidan is Professor of Practice in Business and Finance at NYU Shanghai, China, Senior Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, and an Affiliate Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil.
