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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 and nearly two-thirds of the 148 U.S.

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What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

Harvard Business Review

“The main thing is to be independent and give your own orders and not have to take them from anybody else,” a machine operator told Lamont. Other books that get at this are Hard Living on Clay Street (1972) and Working-Class Heroes (2003). The woman who ran the speaker series, a major Democratic operative, liked my talk.

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