but being in china for 2 summers. as i can see that as time goes on,
they're becoming a bit more liberal on things
At 06:20 PM 2/4/01 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
>
> >
> > A new graduate student in my department told me that at Beijing
> > University, econ undergraduates are not taught Keynesian economics -
> > they get a good dose of Marxism and then they get hooked up with
> > monetarism!!
> >
> > Can anybody else verify this? Is China liberalized enough so that
> > students are allowed to openly be taught free market economics?
> >
>
>I have some Chinese grad student friends and I get the impression that
>what you say is correct.
>
>But at the beginning of every one of these free-market economics books,
>my friends tell me that the government prints a short "caveat emptor".
>This basically states that the free-market ideas in the book are all
>wrong, and that the students are being taught about these ideas so they
>can see (i) how wrong these ideas really are, and (ii) how great Marx
>is in comparison.
>
>Alex Robson
>UC Irvine
