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XuetangX

Chinese Economics

Henan University via XuetangX

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    I. Introduction: Identifying real-life problems, forming cause analysis: Introducing problems to create innovative demand, reviewing origins to with the future. Recognizing that a large number of cognitive dilemmas and mental pain points in real life actually stem from the existing knowledge system, especially the Western economics represented mainly neoclassicism, and at the same time recognizing that political economics represented by Marxist economics fails to explain these problems and cannot provide solutions, and then proposing the necessity of innovation the economic system and elaborating the relationship with the existing economic system; (Lecture 1, Lecture 2)

II. Theoretical System and Research Method Elucidating the characteristics of public economy, understanding the dilemma of collective action, and proposing a collective analysis method. Recognizing that the existence of cognitive dilemmas and mental pain stems from the objective existence of public economic phenomena and public economic issues in human society, analyzing the connotation and characteristics of public economic issues, public goods and collective behavior, and proposing theoretical system of this course (including methodology and philosophical basis); (Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5)

III. Ideological Review Institutional Analysis: Constructing an analytical framework for the logic of public economy, sorting out the logic of public economy in Confucian and Legalist thoughts, and distilling the of the knowledge system of Chinese economics. Reviewing the solutions to these problems by the governance sages in the history of human civilization, summarizing the historical practice of governance models focusing on the institutional connotation of the ancient Chinese Confucian and Legalist state model; on the basis of summarizing the experience of Confucian and Legalist thoughts, a theory of public economic institutional change, and using this theoretical system to explain the logic of national governance, the connotation of the triad model of supply and demand in public economy (Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8)

IV. Case and Comparison, analyzing and comparing the existence logic and efficiency logic of family company, urban community and Chinese national governance system as public economic units (Lecture 9, Lecture 10)



Syllabus

  • Lecture 1: Problems and Introduction
    • 1.1 New problems and new demands
    • 1.2 New demands and old experience
    • 1.3 The economic nature of social issues
  • Lecture 2: The Connotation and Denotation of Public Economics
    • 2.1 The Source and Flow of Western Economics
    • 2.2 The Source and Development of Chinese Economic Learning.
    • 2.3 Comparison of Eastern and Western Public Economic Thoughts
  • Lecture 3: Research Methods in Public Economics
    • 3.1 Examples of public economic issues analyzed
    • 3.2 Research methods and learning methods
  • Lecture 4: Distinguishing the Concept of Public Goods
    • 4.1 The concept of public goods in Western economics
    • 4.2 Reconsideration of the Public Goods Test
    • 4.3 Relevant concepts of public goods
  • Lecture 5: The framework system of public economics
    • 5.1 Research logic of public goods and public economic issues
    • 5.2 The objective elements of public economics
    • 5.3 State finance and the system of public finance studies
  • Lecture 6: Summary of the Relationship between Confucian and Legalist Thought and Chinese Economics
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Analysis of the reasons for the emergence of Confucian and Legalist thoughts
    • 6.3 Public goods of Confucianism and Legalism concern
  • Lecture 7: The Public Economic Logic System of Confucian Governance Ideology
    • 7.1 The Public Character of Confucianism and Its Source
    • 7.2 The Confucianism's assumption of human nature premise
    • 7.3 The Practical Path of Confucian Public Economic Thought
  • Lecture 8: The Public Economic Logic System of Legalist Governance Ideology
    • 8.1 The public nature of Legalist thought
    • 8.2 The utilitarianism of Legalist thought
    • 8.3 The institutional practice of Legalist thought
  • Lecture 9: The Good Governance Connotation and Efficacious Governance Logic of Chinese Economic Governance: An Empirical Analysis
    • 9.1 Summary of Chinese economics
    • 9.2 Performance evaluation of China's national governance
    • 9.3 Evaluation of the Governance Performance of New China: How to Get Rich?
  • Lecture 10: Rural Revitalization, Limited Companies, and Filial Piety Families: Micro Case Studies
    • 10.1 The public economic logic of cities and villages
    • 10.2 Public economic logic of the limited liability company
    • 10.3 The public economic logic of filial piety families
  • Final exam

    Taught by

    Song Bingtao , Zhu Junbing, Zhang Ting, and Chen Leiyu

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