Economics and Philosophy (The Philosophical Foundations of Institutional Analysis)

Author: Wei Sen
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Features: This book is a collection of essays by the scholar Wei Sen, including reflections on the economics of administrative control economies, institutional analysis of game theory and economics, the life forms of human society: from habits, customs, conventions to institutions, the historical evolutionary paths of different life forms in Eastern and Western social life from the perspectives of moral ethics, cultural beliefs, and language, as well as economics, ethics, language philosophy, and linguistics. The author focuses on the question: "Why did modern China not spontaneously move toward a rule-of-law-based modern market economy order, as Western societies did?" Starting from incentive theory, property rights theory, transaction cost theory, and comparative institutional analysis in contemporary economics, and extending to the works of Hayek and Weber, the book touches on fields such as law (theory), political philosophy, ethics, (cultural) anthropology, language philosophy, and linguistics to seek answers. This book is the author's reflections while studying the works of famous economists with this question in mind.