Transition from Communism (cont.) and the rise of new powers.

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Transition from Communism (cont.) and the rise of new powers

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Review from Tues.

• Why the transition from Socialism to Capitalism?– Liberal arguments• Inability for socialist economies to grow and modernize• Inability to compete in the global economy

– Economic Nationalist arguments• For Russia, elites saw that their country was becoming

less powerful as it was becoming less wealthy

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The Soviet Union under Gorbachev: tinkering with Socialism

• Perestroika• Glasnost• Led to…….– Econ. Crisis– Weakening of

Communist party’s hold on the state

– Declarations of independence

• Which meant the death of the Soviet Union

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Soviet experience suggests that Kornai is correct: that a complete system change from socialism to capitalism is

necessary

• Political power– Change from “command” to market friendly state

• Property rights– decentralization– From state ownership/control to private

ownership/control

• Coordinating allocationFrom bureaucratic to market allocation

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Simultaneous economic and political liberalization: markets and democracy• Many features of democracy put in place in

1991 with fall of communism• But the government was weak and unstable• And could not control the negative

consequences of shock therapy

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Russia chooses Shock Therapy….

• “Washington Consensus”– Liberalize, privatize, stabilize

• Same process as the Bolshevik Revolution• Utopian social engineering?• Large cluster of simultaneous changes needed– Price liberalization + privatization + elimination of

subsidies for industry + anti-monopoly policies + enforcement

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Russia: Shock Therapy in action

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So market institutions were in place but they were weak…..

• Crony Capitalism• Emergence of oligarchs• Asset stripping• Job losses• Capital flight• Bandit Capitalism• Protest• Longing for a return to Communism

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Inequality

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Brain Drain

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Poverty

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Protesting “Bandit Capitalism”

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Repression

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Russia…. A “One Trick Pony” or a new world economic Power?

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Russia: Crash and Burn?

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Small Stimulus Package…

• Russia benefitted from the same easy credit that everyone else benefitted from….

• Debt is still high and billions are needed to rebuild infrastructure

• Sept. 2008, govt. used oil revenue to bolster stock market

• But oil price volatility

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China

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China chooses Gradualism

• The institutionalization of markets without democracy

• The Chinese got “shock therapy” out of their system with the “Great Leap Forward”

• They learned the hard way• So they chose the path of gradualism• Ideological pragmatism• Stiglitz believes they had the wisdom to “know

what they didn’t know”

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Peasants regain control of the land after the “Great Leap Forward” failed

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Abandoning Autarky

• China started entering the international economy after 1978

• Foreign trade decisions were decentralized• Special economic zones were created• Volume of foreign trade rose• And foreign investment flowed in……

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Free movement of people? Chinese migrant workers

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The China Price

• Low wage “industrial reserve army”• Joint ventures• Technology transfor• Competition• Remember the “product cycle?”

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Microeconomic Reforms

• One-stop shopping

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Influx of Capital: FDI

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China’s growth

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Growing at 9 per cent per year

China's GDP, 1990-2006 (current value, billions of U.S. dollars)

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70% of goods in Wal Mart are made in China

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Equality and Inequality in China

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Poverty

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Corruption

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Any movement toward democracy?

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Economic growth substitutes for political reform?

• Economic reform as a substitute for political reform?

• Institutional reforms limit the power of the one-party state

• Some of the reforms were……

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China is more cushioned from economic shock than most countries….

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China and the current economic crisis

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What did we learn from the Transition experience?

• Both Liberals and Economic Nationalists agree that….

• Growth is ultimately more important than equality.

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What about the relationship between markets and democracy?

• The Lesson from Russia– Simultaneous introduction of markets and

democracy backfired– Democracy was weak and illiberal– The weak state could not regulate the market– Market undermined democracy– It takes a strong state to introduce the market

• But why did it work in Poland?

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The relationship between markets and democracy

• The Lesson from China– Gradual introduction of markets without

democracy– China followed Gerschenkron: strong state led

development

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China: State-led development

– Moved from focus on equality to focus on growth– Started with agriculture – Lifted rural population out of poverty– Mandatory planning gradually replaced by

markets– developed without inequality

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Why is China Better off than Russia?

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Shifting World Power

The rise of New Powers and the end of American leadership?

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The world is changing rapidly

• The international order is obsolete– Shaped by US during the cold war– Institutions based on rules of capitalism and democracy

• Powerful, wealthy, often non-democratic countries with state-run economies are challengers– The BRICs

• But they have little power in international institutions like the IMF, World Bank, G-8

• And why should they care about the current international order?

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Why should we care?

• The Liberal Would dismiss this question. Why?

• U.S. economic nationalists would be worried. Why?

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The BRICs

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Simultaneous “Take-offs”

• China and India: 1/3 of world’s population• High growth rates• Likely to keep growing• And shifting the technological balance of

power• India will vault over Germany in our lifetimes

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For the economic nationalist: Economic power means military

power• China has the world’s largest foreign exchange

reserves• Uses it for access to raw materials• Large foreign aid programs– Nigeria– Sudan– Indonesia

• Can military power be far behind?

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And Russia….

• Nuclear petro-state?• Growth without development?• Failure to modernize +• Global Ambitions……

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There are now more non-democracies than democracies in the world

• They are powerful– They include two nuclear powers– Half the global population– Oil producers

• Their Economic policies have not followed western liberal model– They pursue “state capitalism”– Blurring distinction between public and private

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And they are changing the game

• They are already shaping world politics– Russia exerts influence in areas vital to U.S. security– India is dethroning US high tech industry– India and China are settling their differences and

cooperating

• They are proving to be resilient in economic crisis– They have amassed sovereign wealth funds– That buffer their economies

• And they don’t have a place at the table

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The G-20

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Meanwhile….U.S. Hegemony is declining

• US Growth rate has fallen by ½ since the beginning of the century– Debt and deficit– Energy dependent

• China’s share of global product has grown by 144 pe3r cent

• India is growing at 5% per year• Russia is flush is oil and gas revenues, paying

off debts while the US sinks deeper into debt

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And is being challenged in international institutions

• Old arrangements are relics– In IMF and World Bank, Benelux has a larger

quota than China

• China challenges the “Washington Consensus”– Why should it be the premise for economic

development – And a condition for loans?

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Why is this happening?

Theories of Political Economy have an answer

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Theories of Dynamic Markets

• The Business Cycle• Product Cycle Theory• Marxist Analysis• All of “Development” Theory• Weber’s “open source” theory• “Creative Destruction”

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Creative Destruction

• Joe Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

• Creative Destruction: innovators destroy established businesses

• Source of market power• Ensures against

monopoly power• It hurts

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Creative destruction historically: Schumpeter’s “waves”

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Econ. Nationalist View: Nations that produce high technology are most powerful

• Britain rose to Hegemony on the invention of the steam engine

• Germany rose to power because of its revolutionary technological contribution to heavy industry

• During its hegemonic period, the United States was the most innovative

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Waltz: international political economy ruled by a hegemon is unstable

• Dominant powers expand too much– ”Imperial decay is . . . primarily a result of the

misuse of powerwhich follows inevitably from its concentration.“

• And even if they don’t, others worry that they are too powerful

• Their preferences might not be the preferences of others

• But isn’t America different? – Arthur Schlesinger thinks so…….

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Solution? Bring these challengers into international institutions

• Elevate the G-20