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100	1		_aLai, Cheng-chung.
245	1	0	_aAdam Smith and Yan Fu : _bwestern economics in Chinese perspective / _cCheng-Chung Lai
264		1	_a[Cham] : _bSpringer, _c2022
264		4	_c©2022 _bSPRINGER
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 93 pages)
520			_aThis book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective
650		0	_aECONOMICS
856	4	0	_uhttps://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/ebc2/9789811965739
856	4	0	_uhttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-6573-9
856	4	0	_uhttp://proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-6573-9
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