China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom Format:Paperback rather than theology

rather than theology

he argues that unpredictable actions constitute a severe impediment to economic growth and development--and that a basic characteristic of quality government is impartiality in the exercise of power

He ultimately extrapolates Allaisian theory into a pragmatic approach to investor behavior and the natural instability of financial markets

A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer showcases his writings

Publisher: Michael Joseph

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom Format:Paperback rather than theologyThis audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People's Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author's UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum's professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China