Date/Time:

21 March 2019 (Thursday), 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Lectures Outline / Synopses:

Forty years after Deng Xiaoping's launch of the "reform and opening-up" policy, China is entering a major turning point in the evolution of its economic system. The policies put in place since 1978 that have allowed China to go through an unprecedented economic development since the early 19th century, carry, even after his death in 1997, the imprint of Deng Xiaoping. The goals set by the current China's leadership for 2049 in terms of economic development, and, more broadly, China's place in the world, require going beyond Deng Xiaoping's legacy in areas as important as the role of the state, the organization of financial and fiscal systems, the environment, or the positioning of China in the current international economic system. In this major transformation process, political implications and dilemmas may also be very important.

Date/Time:

22 March 2019 (Friday), 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Lectures Outline / Synopses:

At a time when China is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the economic reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the evolution of its economic system continues to diverge with the capitalist economic systems of OECD countries. This divergence has so far not been sanctioned by economic difficulties as was the case of Japan in the late 1980s. This divergence raises a series of major questions about the diversity of national trajectories of economic catch-up, but also on the diversity and adaptation of institutional forms of capitalism in very varied national political contexts. This divergence also raises a series of questions about China's current and future positioning in relation to the functioning of the international economic system derived from "Bretton Woods".