Adam Smith and Yan Fu: Western Economics in Chinese Perspective

Lai, Cheng-chung

Springer Verlag, Singapore（2022/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 120 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789811965722

Full Description

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.

Contents

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.