The Economic Rise of China: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

This book seeks to reinvigorate debates on the growing forces influencing China’s social and economic evolution. It draws attention to several neglected areas in the discussion of China’s rapid economic expansion, such as unbalanced growth, mass internal migration, international labour flows, and disparities in access to education, public health, and housing.

China’s rapid economic development has attracted the interest of many scholars following its emergence as the world’s second largest economy and stimulated research into the underlying factors that have made this development unique. In advancing research, the chapters included in this edited book help with refining our understanding of the forces that have been driving China’s social- economic, political, institutional and technological developments, addressing the related issues, thus, advancing the social economic literature within the China context. This book serves the interests of scholars who seek to understand more fully the development of China as well as of other emerging economies.

One of the chapters in this volume was originally published in the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. Other chapters were originally published in the Forum for Social Economics.

Zhihua Wang is Senior Lecturer and Global MBA Program Leader at Glasgow Caledonian University, London; Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Management Theory and Research, IGI Global; and a member of the Editorial Board of Forum for Social Economics, Taylor Francis. She has published over 43 research papers on peer-reviewed international journals and proceedings. Her research interests include knowledge transfer, game theory, real options, culture and identity theory.

Eleftherios Giovanis is Associate Professor of Economics at the Izmir Bakircay University. He completed his PhD in environmental economics at the Royal Holloway University of London. He has participated in several research projects, and has worked in universities in Italy, UK, and Turkey. His research interests include environmental, health, labour and welfare economics.

Nikolaos Karagiannis is Professor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina; a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity; an invited visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, England; and the co-editor of American Review of Political Economy. He has published extensively in the areas of economic development, public sector economics, and macroeconomic policy analysis. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of 22 books and has published over 150 papers as refereed journal articles, books chapters and op-ed.