Deng Xiaoping's economic legacy is overwhelmingly positive and quite secure-in this, it
stands in contrast to his troubled and ambiguous political legacy. Of all of Deng's
achievements, the transformation of China's economic system is the only one that is
currently judged to have succeeded, and to have benefited large numbers of people. Deng
presided over the Chinese government during a period of enormous economic change.
Under his leadership, the government extricated itself from a legacy of massive economic …

This major study brings to light Thoreau's relation to the complex economic discourse of his
time and place. Specifically, it examines the impact of transformations in economic thinking
and behavior that occurred in antebellum New England and America; these transformations
at the level of language; and Thoreau's awareness of these transformations. Neufeldt
situates Thoreau in significant economic conditions of his time, investigating how these
conditions contained him even as he sought to contain them. Using Walden and" Life …