European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance

ISBN-13: 9780367434489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 310 str.

Iwo Amelung; Bertram Schefold

Opis

This pioneering book brings together Western and Chinese scholars to reflect on the historical evolution of economic thought in Europe and China.

Spis treści

Part I: Chinese Lines of Evolution   Section 1: The Agency of the State   1. People’s Livelihoods and Good Governance in the Past and for the Future   2. Justifying Office-selling for Famine Relief in Nineteenth-century Qing China   3. The Cost of Security: Financing Yellow River Hydraulics During the Late Imperial Period   Section 2: Land, Interest and Usury   4. Outline of the Institutions for Land Transactions in Traditional China   5. Loans and Interest Rates in Traditional China   6. The Progression of Foreign Currencies in Ancient China   Part II: European Lines of Evolution   Section 1: From Rationalisations of Usury to Deductive Theories of Interest   7. Theorizing Interest: How Did It All Begin? Some Landmarks on the Prohibition of Usury in Scholastic Economic Thought   8. Merchants and the New Catholic View on the Economy: Florence and Augsburg Between the 15th and the 16th Century   9.  From Kaspar Klock’s “De aerario” (1651) and Leibniz’s “Meditatio de interusurio simplice” to Florencourt’s “Abhandlungen aus der juristischen und der politischen Rechenkunst” (1781): How Calculus Led from the Logic of a Device for Circumventing the Prohibition of Usury to a Modern Theory of Depreciation   10. Interest on Money, Own Rate of Interest, the Natural Interest Rate and the Rate of Profits: A short History of Concepts – Ultimately Emerging from the Usury Debate   Section 2: The Spread of Monetary Relations and the Transition from Poor Relief to the Welfare State   11. Labour and Poverty in Medieval and Early Modern Europe   12.  After China, before Sweden and England: the Circulation of Paper Money in Naples   13. European Models and Transformations of the Welfare State   Part III: Contact, Comparison and Interaction   Section 1: Before the Revolutions   14. Xunzi and Plato on the Economics of Totalitarianism: A Meeting of Distant Minds   15. Yantie Lun in the Pro-legalist and Anti-Confucian Campaign   16. A Critical Examination of Chinese Influences on Quesnay   Section 2: The Traces of the Past in the Transition to Modernity  17. Rethinking Traditional Attitudes Towards Consumption in the Process of Formation of Chinese Economics (Late Qing and Republican Period)   18. China’s Ancient Principles of Price Regulation through Market Participation: The Guanzi from a Comparative Perspective   19. Confucian Entrepreneurship and Moral Guidelines for Business in China   Part IV: Conclusions and Perspectives   20. Towards a Systematic Comparison of Different Forms of Economic Thought