Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199837082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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By seeking to realize its dream of modernization by integrating itself into the Western economic order, China is playing by our rules, reinforcing the dominance of our companies and regulatory institutions. In this fascinating book, Steinfeld asserts that China's growth actually enhances Western commercial supremacy. Indeed, China has in many ways handed over--outsourced--the remaking of its domestic economy and domestic institutions to foreign companies and foreign rule-making authorities. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. America's share of global manufacturing, by value, has actually increased since 1990. Within China, the R&D centers established by Western companies attract the country's best scientists and engineers, and harness that talent to global, rather than indigenous Chinese, innovation efforts. Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer of Beijing. In short, China's economic emergence is good for America.. And even as Chinese companies assemble products for export to the West, the most valuable components for those products come from the West
Edward Steinfeld is Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT, and is director of the MIT-China Program. He is the author of Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. "Playing Our Game introduces an argument dubbed "institutional outsourcing" that provides a fresh, dynamic, and fundamentally optimistic analysis of the forces driving the evolution of the Chinese political and economic systems. His book is thought provoking and will be controversial, as any really good book should be."--Kenneth Lieberthal, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution "This reviewer enthusiastically recommends this thought-provoking volume to the general public, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and professionals. Steinfeld brings an unusual combination of talents fully into play--he is one of the very few who understand Chinese politics, Chinese economics, developments in international business, and the deep integration of the three. All readership levels."--CHOICE"Playing Our Game introduces an argument dubbed "institutional outsourcing" that provides a fres
Jim Wilder said China's Path. This is a well researched book that provides a clear perspective on China's relationship with the U.S. and the effects of globalization upon both countries. The author defines globalization as organized, worldwide production chains, and any major participant in the production part of the chain needs to accommodate to the direction and control from the product conceptualizers, branders, and marketers, which are often U.S. corporations. With globalized production, often the processes that were within one company are now dispersed across multiple firms in different countries. This book develops the best expl. Excellent Analysis Professor Steinfeld is bringing a new and sophisticated analysis on our relationship with China. His observation is that outsourcing is actually happening in both directions. While much has been written about the outsourcing of manufacturing from the U.S. to China, the reverse outsourcing of institutions from China to the West and the U.S. in particular is less well recognized or appreciated. As a consequence of the on-going reverse institutional outsourcing such as corporate governance, macroeconomic practices, education and professional development of the elites and even foreign exchange mechanism, a gr. Ruben Dikhoff said Great to read a totally different perspective on globalised production. Great to read a totally different perspective on globalised production and R&D and the role every country plays in the interwoven process