Economy

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Oct 13

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Intellectual Piracy in China

Merchants selling fake products such as Pfizer's Viagra in violation of intellectual property rights threaten manufacturers who depend on patents to protect large monetary investments in research and development. The sixth report in a series on China's rising economy examines…

Chinese Communist Party official Cheng Si-wei talks to NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman about economic relations with the United States, foreign investment, textile exports and the recent revaluation of China's currency.

Oct 11

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Misinvestment in China

In recent years, China's government has channeled investment into urban and business development, neglecting its enormous peasant class. The government recently pledged, however, to bridge the income gap.

University of Maryland professor Thomas Schelling, one of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for economics, discusses the field of game theory.

Awards to private contractors to aid recovery along the Gulf Coast make the largest transfer of federal fund into private hands. Most of the contracts were awarded with little or no bidding, worrying government watchdog groups. A report from Louisiana…