Nancy Qian

Nancy Qian, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, is Co-Director of Northwestern University’s Global Poverty Research Lab, Founding Director of the China Econ Lab, and a visiting professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance.

Can China and America Handle Being Ordinary?

Nancy Qian

19.10.26

A period of sustained economic success taught Americans and Chinese alike that rapid growth was inevitable, leaving their children to learn the hard way that it was not. Whereas Americans have spent decades wrestling with the psychology of interrupted ascent, China is...

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