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39 high levels of corruption throughout China
Feldstein, "China's Biggest Problems Are Political, Not Economic."
40 an estimated 64 million empty apartments in China
"Crisis in China: 64 Million Empty Apartments," Asia News, September 15, 2010, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Crisis-in-China:-64-million-empty-apartments-19459.html.
41 windmills constructed by China are not connected to the electrical grid
"Weaknesses in Chinese Wind Power," Forbes, July 20, 2009.
42 largest internal migration in history
"The Largest Migration in History," Economist, February 24, 2012.
43 "180,000 protests, riots and other ma.s.s incidents"
Tom Orlik, "Unrest Grows as Economy Booms," Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2011.
44 fourfold increase from 2000
Ibid.
45 building in response to economic inequality
Feldstein, "China's Biggest Problems Are Political, Not Economic"; Wendy Dobson, Gravity Shift: How Asia's New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the Twenty-First Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).
46 intolerable environmental conditions
Dobson, Gravity Shift.
47 autocratic local and regional leaders
Orlik, "Unrest Grows as Economy Booms."
48 wages have been increasing significantly in the last two years
David Leonhardt, "In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge," New York Times Magazine, November 28, 2010.
49 sources besides the partic.i.p.atory nature of their system
Daniel Bell, "Real Meaning of the Rot at the Top of China," Financial Times, April 23, 2012.
50 "form the fundamental principle of Mao Zedong Thought?"
Deng Xiaoping, "Speech at the All-Army Conference on Political Work: June 2, 1978," in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, vol. 2 (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1984), p. 132.
51 corporate lobbies to sit in the actual drafting sessions
Laura Sullivan, "Shaping State Laws with Little Scrutiny," NPR, October 29, 2010, http://www.npr.org/2010/10/29/130891396/shaping-state-laws-with-little-scrutiny; Mike McIntire, "Conservative Nonprofit Acts as a Stealth Business Lobbyist," New York Times, April 22, 2012.
52 routinely rubber-stamp laws
Sullivan, "Shaping State Laws with Little Scrutiny"; McIntire, "Conservative Nonprofit Acts as a Stealth Business Lobbyist"; John Ca.s.sidy, "America's Cla.s.s War," New Yorker blog, June 8, 2012, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/06/wisconsin-scott-walker-cla.s.s-war.html.
53 longest running corporation was created in Sweden in 1347
"Sweden: The Oldest Corporation in the World," Time, March 15, 1963.
54 common until the seventeenth century, when the Netherlands
"The taste of adventure," Economist, December 17, 1998.
55 United Kingdom
