黄亚生：民主政治是否遏制经济增长？
1,151,586 views | Yasheng Huang • TEDGlobal 2011
经济学家黄亚生那中国和印度做了比较，并谈到中国的独裁统治对惊人经济增长的贡献——这引出一个大问题： 民主政治真的扼杀了印度的经济吗？黄亚生的答案或许会给你一个惊喜。
经济学家黄亚生那中国和印度做了比较，并谈到中国的独裁统治对惊人经济增长的贡献——这引出一个大问题： 民主政治真的扼杀了印度的经济吗？黄亚生的答案或许会给你一个惊喜。
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About the speaker
Yasheng Huang asks us to rethink our ideas about China and other large emerging economies. Lately he’s been asking, Does democracy hinder or promote economic growth?
Yasheng Huang | Foreign Affairs, January/February 2013 | Article
Democratize or Die
In this article, I write about the prospects for democracy in China.
Yasheng Huang | Foreign Policy, November 19, 2012 | Article
The Key to Bringing Democracy to China
An earlier article I wrote, also on the prospects for democracy in China.
Bridget Kendall | The Forum, August 12, 2013 | Watch
Sharing Prosperity and Power
You can tune in to a BBC program called The Forum for a discussion on democracy amongst myself, Amartya Sen and Salwa Ismail.
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | Crown Business, 2013 | Book
Why Nations Fail
For the best treatment of how an extractive economic model can produce growth for a period of time but eventually will collapse, read Why Nations Fail.
Steven Pinker | Penguin Books, 2012 | Book
The Better Angels of Our Nature
I always enjoy reading Steven Pinker's books, but his most recent book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, has some startling statistics on the death tolls of totalitarian regimes vis-à-vis the death tolls of democratic regimes. One of the major theses of this book is that the rise of the rights revolution and democratic forms of government is one of the main causes behind the historic reduction of violence.
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