How does the Chinese banking sector really work? Nearly all financial institutions in China are managed by members of the Communist Party, yet economists and even those who engage the Chinese banking sector simply do not have a framework with which to analyze the links between banking and politics. Drawing from interviews, statistical analysis, and archival research, this book is the first to develop a framework with which to analyze how elite politics impact both monetary and banking policies. This book serves as an important reference point for all subsequent work on Chinese banking.

《现代经济学与中国经济改革》一书从一名境外华人学者的独到视角，透彻地分析了中国转轨时期的各种经济行为和经济现象，并据此提供了可供选择的解决方案和政策建议，是一本值得关注中国经济的读者研究参考的经典著作。新世纪是中国经济高速发展的一个世纪，有关于中国经济改革的研究一直是国内外经济学者研究的重点。

China was the largest and one of the most advanced economies in the world before the eighteenth century, yet declined precipitately thereafter and degenerated into one of the world's poorest economies by the late nineteenth century. Despite generations' efforts for national rejuvenation, China did not reverse its fate until it introduced market-oriented reforms in 1979. Since then it has been the most dynamic economy in the world and is likely to regain its position as the world's largest economy before 2030. Based on economic analysis and personal reflection on policy debates, Justin Yifu Lin provides insightful answers to why China was so advanced in pre-modern times, what caused it to become so poor for almost two centuries, how it grew into a market economy, where its potential is for continuing dynamic growth and what further reforms are needed to complete the transition to a well-functioning, advanced market economy.

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food -- and its export of goods, workers, and investments -- drastically reshape world trade and politics. Delving beyond mere recitation of by-now-familiar statistics, Kynge's on-the-ground reporting provides alternative explanations for China's explosive transformation, revealing many of the usual reasons given for its growth to be myths. Most important for the future, he details China's deep, systemic weaknesses -- rampant fraud, crippling environmental crises, a corrupt banking system, faltering government institutions, a rapidly aging population -- that threaten even greater global disruptions. And he demonstrates the profound consequences of those weaknesses for American manufacturers, oil companies, banks, and ordinary consumers. Through dramatic stories of entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks at the heart of this global phenomenon, China Shakes the World explains how China's breakneck rise occurred, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both for the twenty-first century.

★★★★★ ● 看懂中国经济，你最需要的一本书，解决你最深层的困惑。 ● 一个最了解中国经济的经济学家，一本最客观分析中国经济的书。 ● 余永定鼎力推荐！ ★★★★★ 如果用一句经典台词来形容中国经济，我觉得“中国经济水深得很”非常合适。 中国经济谁能看得懂？国内作者写中国经济的书惯于集中皮毛，大有“头疼医头、脚疼医脚”的急躁习性。或大呼“中国经济即将崩溃”，或牢骚满腹，酷似其有经天纬地之才。在我看来，国外作者不受国内气候与惯常思维的影响，反而更有利于客观地评述中国经济。摆在读者你面前的这本《中国经济增长，靠什么》，就是一本极其客观评述中国经济的书。 只所以起这么个书名，完全是有感于书的内容。试想，在美国经济萧条、欧洲债务缠身、日本经济萎靡不振等因素的多重打压下，中国经济明显开始放缓。出口增长很难持续、基础设施投资难以为继、国内消费提不起情绪……接下来，中国经济增长，到底靠什么。这就是这本书的主题。 放下你手中忙碌的工作，把一盏香茶，细细品味一本专司研究中国经济的老外写的一本书，你会发现，原来中国经济有那么多让你吃惊的东西，原来中国经济可以那么与众不同。 ★★★★★ ■名人推荐 ▷▷▷ 本书是关注中国经济人士的必读之作。 ——余永定 ▷▷▷ 在后危机时代，世界所有主要经济体面对的是恢复经济平衡的紧迫任务，中国也不能置身事外。尼古拉斯•拉迪对中国在这项任务中需要采取的关键措施提出了真知灼见，详细阐明了中国向期盼已久的消费驱动型增长模式转型所需的金融和货币改革。毫无疑问，本书将推动关于中国对全球经济影响力的争论。 ——斯蒂芬•罗奇 摩根士丹利亚洲区非执行主席 ▷▷▷ 尼古拉斯•拉迪是我知道的极其了解中国经济的学者之一。我始终非常严肃地看待他关于中国的见解，对于他这本书中的内容我仍然是这样的态度。我相信，这是一本所有对今天中国经济政策感兴趣的人必读的书。 ——比尔•罗兹 威廉•R•罗兹全球顾问有限责任公司主席 ▷▷▷ 拉迪的书是一部关于中国恢复经济平衡并保持高速增长需要实施的政策改革的杰作。本书数据翔实，深刻的分析随处可见，任何想了解中国经济增长前景的人必读此书。 ——埃斯瓦尔•普拉萨德 布鲁金斯学会高级研究员

当代中国为何会赢得世界各国那么多的关注？中国的一举一动为何会招来国际舆论那么多的议论？是因为中国令人意外的发展成就和社会问题，还是因为出乎意料的中国崛起和中国崩溃的议论，或是因为中国潜在的经济威胁和军事威胁？ 通过阅读本书，您会对上述问题有个清晰的认识。其实，中国吸引力的关键原因是“中国不一样”。每个国家说起来都“不一样”，但中国的规模和影响力显然最突出，“中国不一样”的核心是中国的“制度与文化的组合”不一样。中国吸引力的关键原因，是中国的这个“不一样”所包含的种种不确定性带来的震撼和焦虑。焦虑，往往比震撼更加持续有力。 本书一方面回答了“中国为什么不一样”的问题，另一方面也回答了“谁有可能实施什么方案”的问题。通过一种远距离观察中国的理论视角，本书将读者心目中非常熟悉的中国，变成了一个多少有些“不一样”却更加逼真的中国！