Books

2020. China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press.

• Douglass North Best Book Award, Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (SIOE)

• Alice Amsden Book Award, for “best book that breaks new ground in the study of economic behavior,” Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

• Honorable Mention, Barrington Moore Book Award, American Sociological Association

• Recommended by The Economist, “Six Books to Understand China’s Domestic Challenges” 

• Translated into Korean (2023), Vietnamese (2023), Serbian (expected 2024)

2016. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Cornell University Press. Cornell Studies in Political Economy.

• Winner of 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for outstanding book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy

• Winner of 2018 Viviana Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology, Awarded by the American Sociological Association

• Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017

• Recommended by The Economist, “Five Books on Ending Poverty," along with Development as Freedom (Sen), Poor Economics (Barneejee & Duflo), The White Men’s Burden (Easterly).

• Translated into Chinese (2018) and Vietnamese (2022). Audiobook released in 2023.