Isabella Weber on how China avoided ‘shock therapy’ economics
China-Britain Business Focus | 1 Sept, 2021
Isabella Weber on How China Avoided Shock Therapy. A Q&A with David Barboza
The Wire, China | 8 Aug, 2021
How China escaped shock therapy: Isabella Weber unpacks the debates of the 1980s in conversation with Kaiser Kuo
Sinica powered by SupChina | 8 July, 2021
“Meticulously researched and persuasively argued, her book makes important contributions to our understanding of a critical period in China’s recent history — the decade of the 1980s — when a fierce debate took place between “package reformers” supporting sweeping price liberalization and gradualists who argued that state participation in the market was critical to dampen inflation and maintain social stability. It also sheds light on the run-up to the student-led demonstrations of 1989.” Kaiser Kuo
A mini review is available here.
How China Avoided a Soviet-Style Collapse. An interview with Daniel Zamora Jacobin
Jacobinmag.com | 2 Aug, 2021
Economics and Beyond with Rob JohnsonInstitute for New Economic Thinking
Institute for New Economic Thinking | 12 July, 2021
“We’re here to talk about … her marvelous new book on China. And I underscore marvelous, called How China Escaped Shock Therapy. The market reform debate has come out this year and it’s causing quite a stir. Many of my friends have been knocking on my door, “You got to read this book. You got to read this book.” I did. Now I’m saying it to you, “You got to read this book. You got to read this book.”
How China Escaped Shock Therapy. Interview with Daniel Denvir
The Dig Radio | 13 July, 2021
How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber How China rejected neoliberal orthodoxy and became the new workshop of the world. Dan interviews economist Isabella Weber on her book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate.
How China Escaped Shock Therapy. An interview with Alex Doherty
Politics, Theory, Other | 1 May, 2021
Bloomberg Business Week Podcast
Bloomberg | 18 Aug, 2021
Bloomberg News Cross Asset Reporter Katie Greifeld and Isabella Weber discuss China's crackdown on tech companies.
Woś w szerszym planie. Dlaczego Chińczycy nie mieli terapii szokowej. An interview with Rafał Woś
Salon 24, Poland | 21 July, 2021
Escaping Shock Therapy IPPR Review
IPPR Progressive Review | 13 July, 2021
Italian translation by Pandora Vista
German translation by Luxemburg