andrewbatson's profile picture. Partner and China research director at Gavekal Dragonomics. Aspiring blogger. Former Wall Street Journal. Variously from Louisiana, Beijing, Pacific Northwest.

Andrew Batson

@andrewbatson

Partner and China research director at Gavekal Dragonomics. Aspiring blogger. Former Wall Street Journal. Variously from Louisiana, Beijing, Pacific Northwest.

Interesting list, not just the usual

The 10 Best Books of 2025: Ten works of fiction and nonfiction that stood out among those our reviewers read this year. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…



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Eighteen centuries before Adam Smith!!! 🤯 “There must be farmers to produce food, men to extract the wealth of mountains and marshes, artisans to process these things and merchants to circulate them. There is no need to wait for government orders; each man will play his part,…


On this theme, the great novel of trying, but failing, to achieve The American Dream is Wallace Stegner's *The Big Rock Candy Mountain*, which I re-read recently. Hardworking, talented guy keeps trying to strike it rich, comes close a few times but it always goes wrong.

The reason most men of past times did not choose the unsettled life of adventure was that it was very risky to do so. Most obviously, the physical dangers were often very real. You could die. But you could also just fail.



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How do people in a rising power view their country's global standing? My new paper in @IntOrgJournal finds significant national overconfidence in China and shows that misperceptions can be corrected and triumphalism mitigated cup.org/49rBoKZ 崛起大国的过度自信及其校正


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Out-rageously brilliant baritone sax by the great #PatPatrick, who arrived on planet Earth this day, tearing it up here with @SunRaUniverse... youtube.com/watch?v=3XjTO-…

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