Sublime

China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years – a process of industrialization that took over 200 years in Europe.

As the next section demonstrates, the war with China brought the much-needed momentum to the technocratic movement.

modernization theorists

researchers in this book were asked, for such targets, to attempt to identify the nonabsolute value that would provide the best benefit-cost ratio over the next 15 years.

China needed, in Dewey’s opinion, “a new culture, in which what is best in western thought is to be freely adopted—but adapted to Chinese conditions.”

Bhupendra might not have been worried, but in 1967, the fact that his competition was all Chinese and Indian was a matter of great concern in the world beyond Iowa City. What had once been a trickle of Third World students into U.S. schools was becoming a tidal wave. That academic year, China and India accounted for about 11 percent, each, of the t

The limited remit and strength of international governance create severe bounds on the ability to provide transnational public goods through voting and deliberation, but the almighty dollar (and yuan) is respected in most corners of the planet. Capital flows and the technology it is invested in shape lives around the world.

“selling hula out to foreigners”