Adam Smith and Yan Fu : western economics in Chinese perspective / Cheng-Chung Lai.

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Adam Smith and Yan Fu : western economics in Chinese perspective / Cheng-Chung Lai.

9789811965739 (electronic bk.)
9811965730 (electronic bk.)
9811965722
9789811965722

[Cham] : Springer, 2022.

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English

1 online resource (xiii, 93 pages)

10.1007/978-981-19-6573-9 doi

HC427.5

338.951

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.

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