Economics of My Thinking (New Cover)

Author: Wang Dingding
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: The articles collected in this book were written by the author between the summer of 1996 and the spring of 1997. Perhaps because they are not "academic," they are closely related to the author's "thinking." This was a significant period of change in the author's personal history, during which the meaning of freedom in the author's life had become painfully exposed by the conflict between the university system and the author's pursuit of academic inquiry. This book reflects the author's economic thinking on everyday issues. For example, from the question of consumer behavior, the article "What is 'Diminishing Marginal Utility?'; from the cost of international long-distance calls, the article "Across Mountains and Rivers, No Letter"; on the topic of healthcare system reform, the article "Life is Precious, but the System is Even More So," and so on, showing how small things can reveal big truths. Some come from personal life, while others come from social life. It serves as an enlightenment for the public. I think, therefore "economics" has become what I understand and contemplate—it differs from, at least, and is not entirely equivalent to what others understand as "economics." Just as if you have never seen "red," no matter how many times you read the word "red," you will never grasp its meaning. Similarly, without your personal, unique "economic" experience, you cannot truly understand what we generally refer to as "economics." Many economics students or graduate students in universities do not grasp this principle. As a result, their "economics" is an unthinking economics or not "their economics," at best, just their professors' economics.