How China Escaped Shock Therapy Quotes

“casual acceptance of—even commitment to—human deprivation, to unemployment, inflation, and disastrously reduced living standards. This is even seen as essential therapy: out of the experience of unemployment and hunger will come a new and revitalized work ethic, a working force eager for the discipline of free enterprise.”
― Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate