Review of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought

Author: Tao Yitao
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: The book "A Review of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought" essentially analyzes and studies the impact of political, economic, and institutional factors that dominated or played a decisive role in ancient Chinese society on the formation and development of the ancient Chinese economic thought system. This influence, on one hand, led to certain dominant theoretical trends or tendencies in the ancient Chinese economic thought system, and on the other hand, revealed some distinctive characteristics of ancient Chinese economic thought compared to Western economics. Therefore, it can be said that this paper also provides a macroscopic examination and research of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought: on one hand, taking the feudal society of China as the research background and deriving the characteristics of ancient Chinese economic thought from the features of Chinese feudal society; on the other hand, comparing the feudal societies of China and the West as the premise of the study, and exploring the national characteristics of ancient Chinese economic thought and its status and value in the history of ancient economic thought worldwide from the differences in economy, economic systems, as well as political, institutional, cultural, religious, and geographical environments.