COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS by Yu-Shan Wu ( 9780804723886 )

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COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS
MAINLAND CHINA, HUNGARY, THE SOVIET UNION, AND TAIWAN

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ISBN 10:

0804723885

ISBN 13:

9780804723886

Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 March, 1995

Pages:

300

Description:

This pathbreaking work attempts to understand China's economic policies by examining the political logic behind economic reforms in authoritarian, command-economy states from the wholly original perspective of property rights.

Synopsis:

In virtually all advanced industrialized countries, the explosive topic of immigration has engendered heated argument, political anger, cultural anxieties, and blatant racism. In the United States, most of the attention is on the stream of Mexicans crossing the border in such numbers that early in the next century Latinos-immigrant and U.S.-born-are expected to surpass African Americans as the largest minority group.This book focuses on key aspects of the problem, including the puzzling differences between Mexcio-born adolescents and adolescents born in the United States. Whereas Mexico-born adolescents are highly motivated to learn English and use the educational system to improve their lot, U.S.-born adolescents seem angry, frustrated, and less interested in academic achievement. What accounts for this difference?In a unique research design, the authors seek answers in a psychological and cultural study of four groups of adolescents: a group in a Mexican town with a high rate of migration; a group that had migrated to the United States with their families, a group of second-generation Latinos; and a group of white ethnographic observations, the authors pursue such questions as: How is achievement motivation patterned Mexican family life? How do the concerns of white American adolescents differ from those of the other groups? What happens to immigrant families as children shift cultural values in the new country? Among the many significant conclusion to emerge from this study is that whereas Mexicans see their achievements in the context of family obligations, white adolescents struggle with issues of independence and ambivalence toward authority, and U.S.-born Latinos-hybrid children of two worlds-share concerns with both white and Mexico-born peers.

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