Karl Georg Zinn stellt für die sozial zutiefst gespaltene Gegenwart - Neofeudalismus - die tatsächliche Keynessche Alternative vor. Keynes vorzuwerfen, seine Theorie beschränke sich auf kurzfristige, konjunkturelle Probleme, beruht auf Unkenntnis und ideologischer Verkürzung. Antizyklische...

Subjective well-being, China, frustrated achievers, trust, anomie. - Happiness in China plummeted between 1990 and 2000 despite rapid economic growth. This finding contradicts the notion that income growth leads to gains in happiness. In sociology, people might mentally benefit from social trust...

1. Introduction / Ying Ma and Hans-Michael Trautwein -- 2. Physiocracy and the Chinese model / Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen -- 3. The reception of Adam Smith in East Asia / Qunyi Liu -- 4. Commodities, natural resources, and growth / Mauro Boianovsky -- 5. Yan Fu, individualism, and social order /...

This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world. The book describes important...