China Political Economy: Volume 5 Issue 1 , Open Access

The new stage and mission of researching the history of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics

Jiaxiang Li

The aim of this paper is reviewing the discipline development course of the history of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics and recognising the changes of its…

Development of the digital economy, transformation of the economic structure and leaping of the middle-income trap

Yudong Qi, Xi Chu

Currently, China’s economy is in the critical phase of transforming economic development patterns and replacing old growth drivers with new ones. Whether it can successfully…

The data factor's dual attribute and its interaction effects

Xingmiao Guan, Xingfang Qin

Data has become a factor of production. This occurs when history enters the era of big data, in which technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and blockchain…

Ownership, trickle-down effect and shared development: a political economy analysis

Kaicheng Gai, Yongsheng Zhou

As an essential part of mainstream Western development economics, the trickle-down theory originates from the behavioral choices and iterations of thought on conflicts of interest…

The crisis of US neoliberalism and the risk of current economic stagflation

Xiaoqin Ding, Zhihong Luo

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, tremendous changes have taken place in the US economy – the economic growth in the whole year of 2020 was negative, and though it enjoyed a…

The capital logic of platform economy globalisation and it’s critique and transcendence

Wenlong Han

To realise the shared development of the digital economy, people need to transcend the capital logic and advocate the logic of cooperative development, i.e. “co-construction…

Trade barrier decrease and environmental pollution improvement: new evidence from China’s firm-level pollution data

Dengke Chen

Trade and environment are essential issues closely related to the development of the national economy and the improvement of people’s livelihood in the new era. The Report to the…