Re: Keynes in China
Several years ago, if I recall correctly, I read in AEI's newsletter that Gottfried Harberler's _Propserity and Depression_ was being used as a text in China. Carl Close The Independent Institute 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
Re: Keynes in China
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
Keynes in China
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? -fabio
Re: Keynes in China
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
