Introduction -- Models and structures -- The structuralist view of theories -- Idealization and concretization -- Measurement -- A general concept of an economy -- Preference and utility -- The logical structure of game theory -- Abstract labor and labor value -- Classical economics -- The...

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...