Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-06-19
Dwarkesh Patel & Arthur Kroeber: books mentioned on Dwarkesh Podcast
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
Arthur Kroeber is a leading researcher on Chinese tech and macro, a founding partner at Gavekal Dragonomics, and author of "China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know." It's the most useful, detailed resource I've found of how China actually works.
Dwarkesh Patel recommended China's Economy by Arthur R. Kroeber. Arthur Kroeber discussed The Venturesome Economy by Amar Bhidé.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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China's Economy
China's Economy by Arthur R.
Recommended“a research consultancy focused on China, and the author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know. A friend, while I was in China, recommended it to me. And it’s been the most valuable and useful resource you can get today on how China works.”
Where to get it
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The Venturesome Economy
Discussed“I'm pretty partial to theories of innovation like the one that was propounded by a guy named Amar Bhidé who wrote a book a number of years ago called The Venturesome Economy. What he stresses there is the feedback loop between consumer demand and what producers are doing.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged China's Economy
“It's a fabulous book. I'm very proud of it and a few thousand people read it.”
Passing China's Economy
“we have to have this adversarial relationship with China again?" Explain it to me when we're 50 years removed and the sort of day to day news isn’t as salient. I basically agree with that.”