By Sukrit S. Puri. Princeton University. --- Despite being an authoritarian and often repres- sive regime, the Chinese government enjoys the support of 70 percent of its population. This paper tries to make sense of this support by engaging literature on political legitimacy to evaluate...
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The Economic Consequences of China’s One Child Policy
By Sam Hansen. Stanford University. --- In the aftermath of the Mao-era, China enacted the one-child policy to curb its staggering population growth and mitigate the associated consequences of poverty, resource-depletion, pollution, and urban sprawl. Though it dramatically reduced...
An Inquiry into the Wealth of a Continent
By Jirapat Taechajongjintana. Stanford University. --- I once recalled my grandmother telling me her story of childhood yore; her eyes sparkled as she flashbacked to those moments of the “good old days”. “We lived differently then,” she said.