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Cold War, Decolonisation and Economic Transitions

Professor Martin Daunton · Gresham College

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About

Different models of economic modernity competed during the Cold War. Washington feared that the transition from colonial peasant societies would provide an opening for Marxists, as in Vietnam. But by 1989, the Soviet economic model was in crisis and attempts to create a market economy led to Putin’s kleptocracy. In China, the disaster of Mao’s Great Leap Forward was followed by successful transformation. Why did the Soviet Union fail where China succeeded?

Lectures

  1. Markets and Marxism: USA, USSR and China 2023-10-31 · YouTube
  2. Export-Led Growth in the Asian Tiger Economies 2024-02-06 · YouTube
  3. What went wrong in Latin America? The failures of import-substituting industrialisation 2024-04-09 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Martin Daunton
Year
2023
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Economics, History
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