Since the 1990s, Western companies have invested a fortune in the Chinese economy, and tens of thousands of Chinese students have studied in US and European universities or worked in Western companies. None of this made China more democratic, and now it is heading toward an economic showdown with the US.
argue that the strategy of economic engagement has failed to mitigate the Chinese regime’s behavior.
While Chicago School orthodoxy says that humans can’t beat markets, behavioral economists insist that it’s humans who make markets, which means that humans can strive to improve their functioning. Which claim you believe has important implications for both economic theory and financial regulation.
uses Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller’s work to buttress the case for a behavioral approach to economics.
普林斯顿——如果不是从坟墓就是从历史的垃圾箱里,卡尔·马克思又回来了。德国财长佩尔·施泰因布吕克不久前曾说马克思的答案“也许无法解决”今天的问题。法国总统尼古拉·萨科奇让人给他拍摄了一张翻阅马克思著作《资本论》的照片。德国电影制片人亚历山大·鲁格,承诺要以《资本论》为题材拍摄一部电影。
今天的新“马克思主义者”几乎没有谁愿意说清楚马克思的吸引力究竟存在于何处,马克思试图把德国的哲学(以黑格尔理论为基础)和英国的政治经济学(与大卫·李嘉图一脉相承)结合在一起,从而把这两种相当保守的传统演变成一种极端的革命理论。
马克思无疑是19世纪版全球化的一位敏锐的分析家。1848年,他在《共产党宣言》中写道:“我们用来自四面八方的交流和国家间普遍存在的依存关系取代了原有的地方和国家在孤立的同时自给自足的模式。”
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