Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons write by Douglas B. Fuller. This book was released on 2016. Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an in-depth study of China's information technology (IT) industry and policy in the 21st century, and explores the connection between China's financial system and technological development outcomes.
Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons
Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons write by Douglas B. Fuller. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms? China's domestic financial system fails most private firms by neglecting to give them sufficient support to pursue technological upgrading, even while smothering state-favoured firms by providing them with too much support. Due to their foreign financing, multinational corporations suffer from neither insufficient funds nor soft budget constraints, but they are insufficiently committed to China's development. Hybrid firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign financing are the hidden dragons driving China's technological development. They avoid the maladies of China's domestic financial system while remaining committed to enhancing China's domestic technological capabilities. In sad contrast, China's domestic firms are technological paper tigers. State efforts to build local innovation clusters and create national champions have not managed to transform these firms into drivers of technological development. These findings upend fundamental debates about China's political economy. Rather than a choice between state capitalism and building domestic market institutions, China has fostered state capitalism even while tolerating the importing of foreign market institutions. While the book's findings suggest that China's state and domestic market institutions are ineffective, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China's institutional terrain impacts technological development, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater. Looking beyond China, hybrid-led development has implications for new alternative economic development models and new ways to conceptualize contemporary capitalism that go beyond current domestic institution-centric approaches.
Goodbye iSlave
Goodbye iSlave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goodbye iSlave write by Jack Linchuan Qiu. This book was released on 2017-09-28. Goodbye iSlave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Welcome to a brave new world of capitalism propelled by high tech, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of laborers being robbed of their souls. Gathered into mammoth factory complexes and terrified into obedience, these workers feed the world's addiction to iPhones and other commodities--a generation of iSlaves trapped in a global economic system that relies upon and studiously ignores their oppression. Focusing on the alliance between Apple and the notorious Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, Jack Linchuan Qiu examines how corporations and governments everywhere collude to build systems of domination, exploitation, and alienation. His interviews, news analysis, and first-hand observation show the circumstances faced by Foxconn workers--circumstances with vivid parallels in the Atlantic slave trade. Ironically, the fanatic consumption of digital media also creates compulsive free labor that constitutes a form of bondage for the user. Arguing as a digital abolitionist, Qiu draws inspiration from transborder activist groups and incidents of grassroots resistance to make a passionate plea aimed at uniting--and liberating--the forgotten workers who make our twenty-first-century lives possible.
Tears of a Tiger
Tears of a Tiger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tears of a Tiger write by Sharon M. Draper. This book was released on 2013-07-23. Tears of a Tiger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
My Father's Dragon
My Father's Dragon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Father's Dragon write by Ruth Stiles Gannett. This book was released on 2014-01-15. My Father's Dragon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
