My comment:
(a) "葛艺豪认为，习近平上台后设立的改革目标是建立列宁主义式的资本主义，即，利用市场发展经济的同时继续强化党的控制力。"
(i) The problem is there was/is no such thing as 列宁主义式的资本主义. Mr Kroeber does not use the term in ENGLISH -- at least not in the Web.
(ii) I came to US and read their economics textbooks (for fun). At first I wondered how come marxism or communism was nowhere to be found. Then I realized Marxism was not science, whose hypotheses could not be tested with experiments (the same as Freud's interpretation of dreams).
(b) "葛艺豪，本名阿瑟·克罗伯（Arthur Kroeber），是北京佳富龙州商务咨询公司 [Gavekal Dragonomics] 的研究总监，也是《中国经济季刊》的主编。他的新书《中国经济：人人需要了解什么》由牛津出版社出版，以一问一答方式，解答了人们有兴趣了解的许多有关中国经济的问题"
(i) Arthur R Kroeber, China's Economy; What Everyone Needs to Know.® Oxford University Press, Apr 1, 2016. https://global.oup.com/academic/ ... 2?lang=en&cc=us
(A) Founded in 2001 (a year before that of Gavekal Dragonomics) and based in Hong Kong (with offices in Beijing, Denver and Stockholm, Sweden), Gavekal Ltd is apparently a portmanteau of two senior partners: Charles Gave and Anatole Kaletsky (founder).
Partners. Gavekal. Ltd, undated.
research.gavekal.com/partners
(B) In the OUD webpage, click
* Author Information: "Arthur R Kroeber is founding partner of Gavekal Dragonomics, a China-focused economic research consultancy he established in Beijing in 2002 after 15 years as a freelance financial journalist in Asia, and editor of its flagship publication China Economic Quarterly."
So, the publication is not prestigious.
* Reviews and Awards
(ii) His webpage at Brookings.edu shows,
"Arthur R Kroeber
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings-Tsinghua Center
* * *
EDUCATION
BA, Harvard University (1984)"
Alan Greenspan said in the memoir that PhD was needed to be taken seriously in economics. (In his youth, Greenspan tried to get one from Columbia, did not finish due to prosperity of his own firm for economic research (but Columbia awarded hi one after Greenspan became a big wig.)
"但是，葛艺豪还是对中国改革停滞的现状保留着希望，认为习近平可能仍决心进行广泛改革，只是眼下在政治上还无法做到。他说：'如果这一解读是对的，我们会在19大后看到一些变化，因为习近平在19大有机会用他自己的人马替换掉一大批官员，使他能够改变经济政策的方向。'
(ii) The two paragraphs are self contradictory. "缺乏能力" -- this is the first time I hear this assessment about Mr Xi Jinping. If so, Mr Xi can not be counted on to carry on anything in his second term, much less reform. "决心进行广泛改革" is one thing; 能力 is another. See the quotation next.