Ideas for China's Future

This book attempts to convey that ideas matter and China needs right ideas to defeat wrong ideas and to guide its future reform. The successes that China has accomplished over the last 40 years of reform and opening were the result of ideas defeating interests. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping initiated market-oriented Reform and Opening because he had new ideas. While China has made great progress in both economic and social development since the beginning of reform and opening, there is still a long way to go to become a liberal society. Although the ideas of political leaders are crucial in the short term for social transformation to take place, the ideas of the common people play a more important role in the long term. The types of new ideas that China needs are proposed in this book.

This book argues that the right ideas matter in order to guide China's future reform Unpacks the competing factions within China's economy today Considers the role of the common people in affecting long term social transformation

Autorentext

Weiying Zhang is Boya Chair Professor of Economics at National School of Development, Peking University, China, and the chief economist of the China Entrepreneurs Forum. He received bachelor and master degrees in economics from the Northwest University, China, and D. Phil in economics from Oxford University, UK. He has published a variety of academic books and papers. As a leading market liberal in China, his insightful and provocative opinions about China's reforms and development have been widely reported both in Chinese and the international media. In 2011, he received the China Economic Theory Innovation Award for his pioneering contribution to the dual-track price reform.

Inhalt

1. Interests and Ideas in Economics.- 2. The Institutional Foundation of Human Cooperation.- 3. The Market as the Most Effective System of Cooperation.- 4. The Logic of the Market and the Way of Virtue.- 5. What is a Good Market Theory?.- 6. The Fallacy of Market Failure Theory.- 7. What did China Obtain from Globalization?.- 8. Entrepreneurs and Capitalists in the Market.- 9. Future Economic Growth Depends on Innovation Entrepreneurs.- 10. Entrepreneurship Depends on Culture and the Rule of Law.- 11. Innovation Requires Good Institutions.- 12. The Law of God and Law of the King.- 13. Establishing a Market Economy Requires Constitutionalism.- 14. Implementation is the Life of the Constitution.- 15. The Evolutionary Nature of China's Reform.- 16. Deng Xiaoping Knew What He did not Know.- 17. Can Vested Interests Become Reformers?.- 18. Reform Stagnation is the Source of Intensified Social Conflicts.- 19. Ideas and Leadership Determines China's Future.- 20. Constitutionalism and Democratization in the Next Thirty Years of Reform.- 21. China Needs Institutional Entrepreneurs.- 22. China Must Get Rid of Six Idea Traps.- 23. Will Economic Freedom Lead to Political Freedom?.- 24. The Anti-Corruption Dilemma.- 25. There is No China Model.- 26. China Needs to Overcome its Resentment Complex.- 27. Reform Philosophy Must Transition from Utilitarianism to Rights-Priority.- 28. Pursuit of Liberty is a Duty.- 29. Without a Market for Ideas, China has No Future.