1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002074060203316

Autore

BEER, Max

Titolo

2.: Dal cartismo al socialismo moderno / Max Beer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : La nuova Italia, 1964

Descrizione fisica

419 p., [16] c. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

335

Soggetti

Socialismo - Gran Bretagna - SEC. 19.-20

Collocazione

335 BEE 1/2a (ISP VI 52/II)

335 BEE 1/2 (ISP II 165/II)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910410057703321

Autore

Hong Sheng

Titolo

Vision and Calculation : Economics from China's Perspective / / by Sheng Hong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9789811528989

9811528985

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 pages)

Disciplina

330.951

Soggetti

Asia - Economic conditions

Business

Asia

Asia - Politics and government

Asian Economics

Asian Business

Asian Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. On Familism -- 2. Vision and Calculation -- 3. When Public Goods Become Private Goods -- 4. On the Homogeny, Separation, and Substitution of Rent and Tax -- 5. The Economic Nature of the Permanent Tenancy -- 6. Transactions and Cities -- 7. How Should Institutions Change? -- 8. Contracts Matter: Towards a more Developed Explanation of History -- 9. Hedge Funds, Financial Markets and Nation-States -- 10. The Institutional Factors of the Financial Crisis in the United States.-11. The Economic Logic of Specialized Markets -- 12. A General Theory of Rent-Seeking: Rent Dissipating, Rent Keeping, and Rent Seeking -- 13. Medical Insurance Paradox: A Hypothesis on Medical Price Increases in Proportion to Copayment Rate Decreases and Verification in China -- 14. Zero Marginal Cost and Virtual Rent -- 15. Religious Person and His or Her Implication in Institutions -- 16. On the theological coordinates of economics.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a collection of articles on the author's thinking and analysis of China's problems by using the mainstream economic methods. Topics covered include families in traditional China, land permanent tenancy system, changes of land institutions since modern times, rationality of specialized market, similarities and differences between rent and tax, the role of contracts change in the China's reform, analysis of Asian financial crisis and American financial crisis, the paradox of medical insurance, the business model of e-retail platform with zero price, the relationship between transactions and cities, the religious man who is different from the economic man, and theological coordinates of economics. This book provides a nuanced analysis using a China-styled economic approach for scholars while also allowing lay people to enhance their knowledge of China through the stories and cases presented. Hong Sheng is Director of the Unirule Institute of Economics and a professor at the Economic Research Institute of Shandong University, China. Born in 1954, he graduated from People's University of China in 1983 and received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986 and 1990 respectively. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, USA, from 1993 to 1994. .