UID:
almahu_9949702244602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004466432
,
9789004448636
Series Statement:
Sinica Leidensia ; 154
Content:
Ancient Chinese economic thought has never been related to the evidence of economic practice. We know how state economies were supposed to be run in theory, but not the degree to which economic thought reflected everyday economic activity. Moreover, it is still not clear to what extent economic thought constituted a separate field of inquiry and was independent of fundamental cultural notions or political considerations. Finally, why was there so much more sustained interest in political economy in China than anywhere else? This book sets out to consider such questions through contextualised analyses of both received and newly excavated sources on economic thought and practice. Contributors are Paul R. Goldin, Yohei Kakinuma, Maxim Korolkov, Elisa Levi Sabattini, Andrew Meyer, Yuri Pines, Christian Schwermann, Hans van Ess, and Robin D.S. Yates.
Note:
Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Elisa Levi Sabattini and Christian Schwermann -- 1 Economic Cycles and Price Theory in Early Chinese Texts -- Paul R. Goldin -- 2 Agriculturalism and Beyond: Economic Thought of The Book of Lord Shang -- Yuri Pines -- 3 Situating the "Qingzhong" 輕重 Chapters of the Guanzi 管子 -- Hans van Ess -- 4 Feng Xuan Buys Rightness, Gongyi Xiu Expels His Wife: Economic Exemplars in the Warring States and Early Han -- Andrew Meyer -- 5 Between Command and Market: Credit, Labour, and Accounting in the Qin Empire (221-207 BCE) -- Maxim Korolkov -- 6 The Economic Activities of a Qin Local Administration: Qianling County, Modern Liye, Hunan Province, 222-209 BCE -- Robin D.S. Yates -- 7 To Ban or Not to Ban: Jia Yi on Copper Distribution and Minting Coins -- Elisa Levi Sabattini -- 8 The First Chinese Economic Impact on Asia: Distribution and Usage of Monies in Early China in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective -- Yohei Kakinuma -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Between Command and Market : Economic Thought and Practice in Early China. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004448636
Language:
English
