Adam Smith and Yan Fu: Western Economics in Chinese Perspective

2022 ed.

by Cheng-chung Lai

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 9811965757

ISBN-13 9789811965753

Edition 2022 ed.

Publisher Springer Verlag, Singapore

Imprint Springer Verlag, Singapore

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 3rd, 2023

Print length 93 Pages

Product Classification: Philosophy Economics

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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.

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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