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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- 1 Overview -- 1 Proposition and Framework -- 2 Yan Fu Studies -- 3 Life and Times of Yan Fu -- 4 Translation and Publication -- 2 Spread of The Wealth of Nations -- 1 Adam Smith's Economic Doctrines -- 2 Contents of The Wealth of Nations -- 3 Translations of WN -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Speed and Number of Translations -- 3.3 Quality of Translation -- 3 Receptions of The Wealth of Nations -- 1 Method of Analysis -- 2 Motives for Introducing WN -- 3 Methods of Transmission -- 4 Receptions -- 4.1 Difficulties of Reception -- 4.2 Impact on Decision-Makers -- 4.3 Free Trade and Laissez-Faire -- 4.4 Lack of Interest in Smithian Theory -- 4.5 Reception By Left-Wing Readers -- 5 Objections -- 6 Smith's Impact in Retrospect -- 4 Traduttore Traditore -- 1 Motivation of Translation -- 2 Misunderstanding and Distortion -- 3 The 310 Translator's Notes -- 5 Yan Fu's Understanding of The Wealth of Nations -- 1 General Economic Arguments -- 1.1 Pasture Yields As Good a Rent As Corn Land, and Sometimes a Greater One -- 1.2 On the Determination of the Value of Gold and Silver -- 1.3 Interest Rates and Precious Metals -- 1.4 The Fall in the Price of Corn Since the Establishment of the Bounty is Due to Other Causes -- 1.5 On Mercantilism -- 2 Criticisms on Smith's Doctrines -- 2.1 Theories of Rent -- 2.2 Law of Supply and Demand -- 2.3 Corn as Standard of Value -- 2.4 Navigation Acts -- 2.5 Meaningless Passages -- 3 Praises for Smith's Analyses -- 3.1 Basic Attitude -- 3.2 Anti-bullionism -- 3.3 On Monopoly -- 3.4 Some Defects -- 6 Yan Fu's Economic Ideas -- 1 Problems of Chinese Economy -- 1.1 Silver Standard -- 1.2 Lack of Standard in Measures and Specifications -- 1.3 Trade Deficits -- 1.4 Tax Corruption -- 1.5 Public Debt -- 2 Economic Liberalism -- 2.1 Anti-protectionism.

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.

A high degree of openness and labour-intensive production are
the two main features of Taiwan's manufacturing sector. This study uses
the export/sales ratio and the KIL ratio to divide the sector into two
groups: (1) the export-oriented and domestic market-oriented industries,
and (2) the capital-intensive and labour-intensive industries. The Chow
test confirmed the two-regime hypothesis for both the groups, supporting
the validity of our dualistic analysis. Using 1986 census data, the
distribution of profit rates in the two groups are compared. The major
determinants of inter-industry profit differences are the domestic sales
ratio and the capital/output ratio; the other variables have either
little impact or generate unsystematic effects.

This article investigates whether market structure is a significant determinant of income distribution in the manufacturing sector of Taiwan which, in 1986, accounted for 40 per cent of net domestic product. Regression results based on 1986 census data provide no solid evidence for this hypothesis. One can conclude, therefore, that market structure is not an important factor in explaining Taiwan's income inequalities. (DSE/DÜI)

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- To Readers -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Part I Fun and Useful -- 1 Welcome! -- 2 Dead Men's Wrong Ideas? -- Part II Pioneers and Contenders -- 3 Wealth and Power: Mercantilism -- 4 The Physiocrats and Law of Nature -- Part III Classical School -- 5 Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of the Market Mechanism -- 6 Thomas Malthus and Effectual Demand -- 7 David Ricardo and Differential Rent -- 8 John Stuart Mill and the Peak Time of the Classic School -- Part IV The Rise of Socialism -- 9 Antagonists to the Classic School -- 10 Karl Marx and the Collapse of Capitalism -- Part V Marginal Analysis -- 11 The Marginal School in France -- 12 The Marginal School in Germany, Austria, and the U.K. -- 13 Application and Extension of the Marginal School -- 14 Alfred Marshall and the Foundation of the Neoclassical School -- 15 Theories of Imperfect Competition -- Part VI Contemporary Trends -- 16 The Boom of Mathematical Economics -- 17 The Institutional School -- 18 Keynes and Keynesian Economics -- 19 Early Austrian School -- 20 The Rise of the Chicago School -- Epilogue -- Economic Ideas in Retrospect -- Further Readings -- Popular -- Textbooks -- Journals -- Websites.