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

Author: Lai, Cheng-chung
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
Physical Description: XIII, 93 pages 2 illustrations : online resource
Additional Creators: SpringerLink (Online service)

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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.

Summary

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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9789811965739

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