Principles of Political Economy

Author: Wang Huqing
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book was jointly compiled by experienced university teachers long engaged in teaching political economy, organized by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education and Sichuan University Press to meet the needs of the reform of China's higher education curriculum system and teaching materials for the 21st century. Guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and the spirit of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the book strengthens the analysis of contemporary capitalism and the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the first part, the analysis of capitalist economy, in addition to elaborating on Marx's systematic analysis of capitalism, highlights discussions on issues such as state monopoly capitalism, contemporary international economic relations of capitalism, the internationalization of monopoly capital and economic globalization, economic integration and regional economic groupings. In the second part, the analysis of socialist economy has been enriched with new content, strengthening the explanation of basic economic theories and economic laws of socialism, such as the profound connotations of the primary stage of socialism and the basic economic system of socialism, the understanding of the meaning and forms of socialist public ownership, socialist commodity economy and market economy, socialist distribution system and social security, the establishment of modern enterprise systems and strategic restructuring of state-owned enterprises, the state's regulation and control of the economy and the implementation of sustainable development strategies, as well as how China should open up to the outside world after joining the WTO. All these topics are discussed comprehensively, multi-dimensionally, and across a wide range of fields.