Sources

Books

Ang, Y.Y. (2020) China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. [Webpage]

Ang, Y.Y. (2016) How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. [Webpage]

Ang, Y.Y. (2016) How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Cornell University Press. [Webpage] [Chapter: Introduction]

Node Reference Pages

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) “What is a Paradigm?”. Webpage on Ang’s official website. [Link]

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) “Polytunity.” Webpage on Ang’s official website. [Link]

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) “AIM: Adaptive, Inclusive & Moral.” Webpage on Ang’s official website. [Link]

Ang, Y.Y. (2025) “APE: Adaptive Political Economy.” Webpage on Ang’s official website. [Link]

Op-eds and Blogs

Ang, YY. “The Global Polytunity,” Project Syndicate, 29 Oct 2025. (open-access)

Ang, YY. “The World Order After 2025.” Project Syndicate, 31 Dec 2025. (open-access)

Ang, Y.Y. “Doing Development in the Polycrisis,” Project Syndicate, 25 Nov 2024. (Reprinted at UNDP Development Blog)

Ang, Yuen Yuen. “Normatively Weak Institutions Can Be Functionally Strong.” OECD Development Matters (2018).

Ang, Yuen Yuen. “The False Choice Between Neoliberalism and Interventionism.” Project Syndicate (2023).

Publications

Ang, YY. (2025) “Polytunity: The Future of Development,” The Ideas Letter, 4 Sep 2025. (open-access)

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Ang, Y.Y. (2026) “AIM (Adaptive, Inclusive, Moral) Political Economy: Introduction and Applications.” Oxford Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2026.2622283.

Ang, Y.Y. (2025). “Adaptive Political Economy: Toward a New Paradigm.” World Politics. https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.2025.a954433  (posted on SSRN in 2024)

Ang, Y.Y. “AIM: Introduction and Applications,” Oxford Development Studies, Forthcoming in 2026.

Working Papers

Ang, Y.Y. “Taxless Fiscal States: Lessons from 20th-Century America and 21st-Century China,” UNU-WIDER Working Paper (2022)

Edited Volumes

Ang, Y.Y. (2026) “Fairy Tales of Western Development: The Non-Democratic Origins of Fiscal Capacity in Britain, the US, and China.” Chapter in Political Economy Rebooted (2026); posted on SSRN (2025). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5661111.

Speech Transcripts

Ang, Y.Y. (2026) “Turning Polycrisis into Polytunity.” Keynote Speech at Development Studies Association on 27 June 2025. Oxford Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2026.2622284

Ang, Y.Y. “Development in a Time of Disruption,” Keynote Address at the UNDP Global Leadership Retreat. 27 November 2024. (Transcript) (Video)

Ang, Y.Y. Keynote at UNDP Global Leadership Retreat, 27 Nov 2024. [Transcript]

Interviews

Ang, Y.Y., with Tien & Morasco. (2023) “Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang.” https://doi.org/10.1086/725364.

Policy and Intellectual Essays

Ang, Y.Y. “The 2024 Nobel Laureates [AJR] Are Not Only Wrong About China, But Also About the West.” The Ideas Letter, October 31, 2024.

Ang, Yuen Yuen. “The Real China Model: What Other Developing Countries Should Learn from China.” UNDP-Cambodia. 23 Aug 2018. (See UN press release for video lecture and slides)

Policy Reports

Ang, Y.Y. “Turning Polycrisis into Polytunity.” UNDP Expert Brief. June 2025.

Video Lecture Series

Ang, Yuen Yuen. “Let Many China Models Bloom,” INET Video Lecture (2024).