Economist Tea House. Issues 5-8: Combined Edition

Author: Jin Mingshan, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The Economist's Tea House has become a best-selling popular economics book, consistently ranking at the top of the sales charts in major bookstores such as Sanlian Tofu & Fuping Book Center and Feng Ru Song. It will leave you amazed. What is the connection between economics and tea? "Tea is a wonderful kind of water." Legend has it that Shennong, the mythical figure in ancient China, accidentally drank water boiled with wild tea leaves and immediately felt refreshed. From then on, the Chinese people understood the medicinal, edible, and drinking value of tea. Tea is so incredibly effective and wonderful that no one can imagine the Chinese people living without it! Economists are called the "pearls on the crown of social sciences." So why not turn them into magical tea and spread them among the people? In the "tea house-style" narrative, Mr. Zhang Wuchen has taken the lead and already won over a large number of loyal readers. Why can't more Chinese economists join this effort to transform the "pearls into magic," focus on the topics that concern the Chinese people, and express economic wisdom in a pleasant and natural Chinese way, giving clarity to economic rationality new tension and vitality in the "festival of gods" style of China's "tea house"? The great philosopher Socrates once said that paradise is just a place where wise men gather, where discussions and debates take place. The Economist's Tea House is also such a place where talents converge, where voices clamor, and where debates can take place. In this sense, the exquisite and profound "corridor" of The Tea House is a bridge leading to the paradise of thought.