The Ones and Tooze podcast has released an episode where Adam Tooze, professor at Columbia University and Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor at Foreign Policy, discuss the history of economic planning in China from the Maoist era to the present day. Adam and Cameron then use this historical discussion to critically evaluate the 15th Five-Year Plan that the Chinese government recently adopted.
A summary of the episode can be found below (from the podcast’s video description):
China has released a new five-year economic plan that projects GDP growth of around 4.5 percent in the coming year. That would be the slowest rate of growth for China since its era of reforms began in the 1980s. Adam and Cameron dig in.
You can watch the episode here.