Archive - Cogitations

From Reform to Ruin in the USSR

The Soviet Collapse: A Tale of Botched Reform or Entrenched Bureaucracy?

Feb 2 •

Jonathon P Sine

April 2024

The Rise and Fall of LGFVs

Part 1: How China's local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) became China's most complex economic challenge.

Apr 2, 2024 •

Jonathon P Sine

December 2022

The Cold Wind of Historical Nihilism

Lessons from Chinese Communist Party documentaries on the fall of the Soviet Union

Dec 2, 2022 •

Jonathon P Sine

September 2021

Groping the Elephant of Common Prosperity

Common Prosperity is about Common Purpose

Sep 30, 2021 •

Jonathon P Sine

July 2021

The Long Game by Rush Doshi

Hundred-Year Marathon 2.0?

Jul 6, 2021 •

Jonathon P Sine

June 2021

The Dialectic of Development

Industrial Policy and the Living Legacy of Internal Colonization

Jun 30, 2021 •

Jonathon P Sine

May 2021

Financialization: Is it Worse in the PRC?

Over at Scholar’s Stage there’s a very good post with the mildly hyperbolic title: ‘Everything Is Worse in China.’ That essay focused on conservative…

May 9, 2021 •

Jonathon P Sine

March 2021

Atomization and the Future of the CPC

"Despite four hundred million people gathered in one China, we are, in fact, but a sheet of loose sand [yipan sansha (一盘散沙)].

Mar 24, 2021 •

Jonathon P Sine

The Path to Hell is Paved with Righteousness

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For…

Mar 24, 2021 •

Jonathon P Sine

Excavating the Social Scaffolding

Here, you’ll find thoughts on individual and societal flourishing, through the lens of political economy, evolution, history, finance, and IR.

Mar 24, 2021 •

Jonathon P Sine

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