General Theory of Socialist Economics - Research on Economic Issues in China's Transition Period (Graduate Textbook) (3rd Edition)

Author: Gu Shutang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is revised based on the second edition. It maintains the framework structure of the original four parts while enriching, deepening, and enhancing the content, perspectives, and analytical methods. The main content of the book includes: economic transformation and institutional choice, economic entities and microeconomic operation, modern macroeconomic theory and China's macroeconomic analysis, and economic growth and development. The book is rich in content, innovative, clear in structure, and easy to understand, making it suitable as a teaching material for graduate students. This book is revised based on the second edition. It maintains the framework structure of the original four parts while enriching, deepening, and enhancing the content, perspectives, and analytical methods.
Part 1 "Economic Transformation and Institutional Choice" focuses on discussing the nature and objectives that theoretical economics in China should possess, with a special analysis of two important topics: the responsibility of studying the economy during the transition period and the goal of economic development reflecting a people-centered approach.
Part 2 "Economic Entities and Microeconomic Operation" emphasizes the study of microeconomic operation using the analytical tools of economic organization theory. It also combines the theory and reality of changes and innovations in social production organization methods to explore the characteristics of enterprises and property rights systems statically, and analyzes the economic behavior of enterprises and their growth process dynamically. On this basis, it examines the growth and development of private enterprises and the private economy in China.
Part 3 "Modern Macroeconomic Theory and China's Macroeconomic Analysis" revolves around the practical theme of China's economic transformation, providing a comprehensive and complete analysis of major economic phenomena during the transition period. It validates and deepens the application of modern macroeconomic theory in China's transformation.
Part 4, building on the analysis in Part 3, finally focuses on the theme of "Economic Growth and Development." Economic growth and development, including the transition of economic development stages, the development of agriculture, especially the development of agriculture in a dual economy and urbanization, the balanced and unbalanced growth of sectors, and the cyclical nature of economic cycles, all follow certain inherent laws. The task of this part is to analyze, study, and reveal the laws of economic growth and development as they manifest in these issues, and further to answer what kind of development path China should take.
Instructors who adopt this book can obtain free supporting electronic teaching plans from the "Teaching Support Notes" at the back of the book.