China's Economy Is in Balance |
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| Authors: | FAN GANG |
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| Affiliation: | Professor of economics at Beijing University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of China's National Economic Research Institute, Secretary‐General of the China Reform Foundation, and a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China. |
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| Abstract: | The United States accuses China of subsidizing its entire export economy through artificially undervaluing its currency. China accuses the United States of fiscal profligacy while flooding the world with easy credit to keep its economy afloat. This dispute reflects the reality that the world's two largest economies are built on opposite dynamics of production and savings vs. consumerism and debt. In Europe, the wages of unsustainable debt that financed the welfare state have also come due. Rebalancing the global economy in this context is not only a matter of fixing exchange or interest rates and extending the retirement age. It must also involve a recalibration of democracy in both East and West. Two Nobel economists, the Greek prime minister, a ranking Chinese economist and the former chief economist of the IMF address these issues. |
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