IU to host capitalism conference

As Chinese industry grows to a dominating presence in the world today, not even the leading economic minds know how to label its force.\nThe Kelley School of Business will hold the "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics" conference in order to discuss this question and will cover contextualizing China's political economy, regulatory Chinese politics and Chinese industrial trade policies. \n"Despite the ruling party's name, China is no longer a communist country," said conference organizer and IU professor Scott Kennedy in a statement. "As China moves toward the market, there is no consensus about whether capitalism is a better label, and, if so, what type of capitalist system China is evolving toward." \nKennedy, a speaker at the conference, has published several articles in the World Policy Journal, Political Science Quarterly, Financial Times and the Asian Wall Street Journal, among other publications. An expert on the subject of Chinese economy, Kennedy recently released a book, "The Business of Lobbying in China", which discusses how to effectively lobby with regards to China's stable political system and changing economic system. \nOther conference participants will include Hu Shuli, founder and editor of Caijing (Business and Finance Review); Arthur R. Kroeber, co-editor of China Economic Quarterly and managing director of the Dragonomics Research & Advisory firm and Jason Kindopp, the China analyst at Eurasia Group. \nA reporter for 16 years at Workers Daily and China Business Times, Shuli started the privately-financed Caijing in 1998. Shuli has been called "the most dangerous woman in China" for her penetrating editorials and the magazine's groundbreaking stories on China's financial markets and corruption.\nA graduate of Harvard, Kroeber worked as a financial journalist in Asia beginning in 1987, writing articles on China and India for publications including The Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review and Wired. Kroeber specializes in Chinese economic effects on the global market at his research firm. \nPrior to joining the Eurasia Group, Kindopp was a resident scholar at the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Kindopp is a specialist in state-society relations and political stability in China, and his doctoral work focused on threats to social stability in China. \nThe conference will also include many other political, economic and business experts from the University of California-Berkeley, Northwestern University, National Taiwan University and other national and global institutions. \nThe conference will last from 8:45 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. This event is not open to the public, and more information about attendance and basic content of the conference can be found online at www.polsci.indiana.edu/china/default.htm.