Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift - Implications for Competition Between China and the United States

"A country's culture influences its economic growth and its competitiveness. Confucian heritage has promoted China's rapid economic growth, and East Asia is poised to become the most important region of the world's political economy. What do these patterns and trends augur for China and the United States as they compete for international primacy?"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Origins of culture and its effects on economic development and political order. 3. The struggle between materialist and postmaterialist and China's economic growth in historical and comparative context; 4. Economic growth, interstate primacy, and domestic tradeoffs; 5. Innovation, leading sectors, and international competitiveness; Conclusion; References; Index.

About the author

Steve Chan is College Professor of Distinction (Emeritus) at University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published twenty-two books and about one hundred and ninety articles and chapters. He has recently authored Rumbles of Thunder (2023), Thucydides's Trap? (2020), and Trust and Mistrust in Sino-American Relations (2017); and co-authored Contesting Revisionism (2021).

Summary

A country's culture influences its economic growth and its competitiveness. Confucian heritage has promoted China's rapid economic growth, and East Asia is poised to become the most important region of the world's political economy. What do these patterns and trends augur for China and the United States as they compete for international primacy?

Product details

• Authors: Steve Chan, Steve (University of Colorado Boulder) Chan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009465502
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946550-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, Society & culture: general, economic growth, United States of America, USA, Society and culture: general, Confucianism