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Björn Soenens is al zijn hele leven gefascineerd door Amerika en schrijft met onstuitbare passie over zijn favoriete land. Wie volgt Barack Obama op? Hoe verloopt de lange mars naar het Witte Huis? Waarom verandert Amerika in razendsnel tempo, ook al is het politieke leven in Washington verlamd? Soenens schetst een verbluffend tableau van de VS vroeger en nu. Lees mee over een verbazingwekkend land vol dromers en bedriegers. Geschiedenissen vol sappige en markante details. Van Pocahontas tot Lehman Brothers, van JP Morgan tot Donald Trump. Van Coke tot Oreo. Over het verknipte politieke systeem en het onherroepelijke verdampen van de Amerikaanse Droom. Over de bedrieger Nixon, en over de muzikale chroniqueur van Amerika Bruce Springsteen. Over de opkomst van de latino's en de paranoia in de Amerikaanse politiek. Over AirBnB en Uber. Over helden en schurken. Over winners en losers.

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Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types of corruption hurt growth, nor do they cause the same kind of harm. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces serious risks for the economy and political system. Since market opening, corruption in China has evolved toward access money. Using a range of data sources, the author explains the evolution of Chinese corruption, how it differs from the West and other developing countries, and how Xi's anti-corruption campaign could affect growth and governance. In this formidable yet accessible book, Ang challenges one-dimensional measures of corruption. By unbundling the problem and adopting a comparative-historical lens, she reveals that the rise of capitalism was not accompanied by the eradication of corruption, but rather by its evolution from thuggery and theft to access money. In doing so, she changes the way we think about corruption and

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An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business-all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of guanxi stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy.

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S06/0332 --- China: Politics and government--About works and thought of Sun Zhongshan --- S13A/0320 --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: Chan Buddhism (incl. texts) --- S12/0363 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Lunyu 論語 Analects --- 294.3*96 --- #gsdb10 --- #gsdbF --- 294.3*96 Zen-boeddhisme --- Zen-boeddhisme --- History of philosophy --- Indian religions