1. Countries Review

2. Japan Governance MITI Targeting

3. Japan Export Drive Creative Imitation Deming and Manufacturing Protection

4. Japan Savers/Social Security Investment Bubble

5. Japan Asian Crisis Deflation Consumers

6. Germany Soziale Marktwirtschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft Governance Governance Mitbestimmung Mitbestimmung Co-Determination Co-Determination

7. Germany WWII Defeat, Division, Occupation WWII Defeat, Division, Occupation GDR Planwirtschaft, Plan Failure, Gorbachev GDR Planwirtschaft, Plan Failure, Gorbachev

8. Germany Reunification and Reunification and Unification of Europe Unification of Europe

9. Germany Leveraging reconstruction Leveraging reconstruction New Economy Lag New Economy Lag

10. China Stagnation and corruption Stagnation and corruption Opium Wars Opium Wars Mao expels Kuomintang Mao expels Kuomintang

11. China Consolidation and Irrationality Consolidation and Irrationality Great Leap Forward Great Leap Forward Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping

12. China Cultural Revolution Cultural Revolution Deng Deng

13. China Deng and pragmatism (“catching the mice”) Deng and pragmatism (“catching the mice”) Agriculture Agriculture

14. China Industry/Special Economic Zones Industry/Special Economic Zones Openness to World Economy Openness to World Economy

15. China Tiananman Square Tiananman Square Phasing out SOEs Phasing out SOEs Maintaining Control Maintaining Control

16. The Soviet Union and Russia Lenin and the Development Disease Lenin and the Development Disease Consolidation Consolidation

17. The Soviet Union and Russia Stalin, collectivization, electrification, and Stalin, collectivization, electrification, and Planned industrialization Planned industrialization

18. The Soviet Union and Russia Purges and power Purges and power Khruschev and liberalization Khruschev and liberalization

19. The Soviet Union and Russia Reform cycles and plan failure Reform cycles and plan failure Why did they plan? Why did they plan?

20. The Soviet Union and Russia Gorbachev’s glasnost’, perestroyka, and democratization Gorbachev’s glasnost’, perestroyka, and democratization Party eliminated, people empowered Party eliminated, people empowered USSR eliminated USSR eliminated

21. The Soviet Union and Russia Yeltsin. Corrupt fight against communists Yeltsin. Corrupt fight against communists Reform falls short Reform falls short

22. The Soviet Union and Russia Putin’s transition Putin’s transition The sectors: I. Moribund Industry, The sectors: I. Moribund Industry, (Do Russians love to barter?)

23. The Soviet Union and Russia II. Stalled Agricultural Privatization and Private Gardening, III. Oil and Raw Materials, IV. Nascent New Market