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Record Nr.

UNINA9910633926903321

Autore

Lai Cheng-chung

Titolo

Adam Smith and Yan Fu: Western Economics in Chinese Perspective / / by Cheng-chung Lai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9789811965739

9789811965722

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 pages)

Collana

Economics and Finance Series

Disciplina

330.153

Soggetti

Europe - Economic conditions

Asia - Economic conditions

Philosophy, Chinese

European Economics

Asian Economics

Chinese Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Overview -- Spread of The Wealth of Nations -- Reception of The Wealth of Nations -- Traduttore Traditore -- Yan Fu’s understanding of The Wealth of Nations -- Yan Fu’s Economic Ideas -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective.