Pragmatism as Policy. A review by Umair Javed Dawn, Pakistan

“an excellent book by political economist Isabella Weber, titled How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate.. provides an intellectual history of how China steered through the post-Mao period by undertaking a series of reforms that eventually set the stage for rapid economic growth witnessed during the preceding two decades.

At the core of Weber’s documentation is the role of ideas and how key policymakers are influenced by competing notions of pragmatism, tradition, and theory.”

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