It has been some time since Professor Xie Zuoshi sent me his new book, A New Treatise on Macroeconomics. I have read it carefully once and often reflect on his views while taking walks. Having given some of the book’s ideas careful thought on several occasions, the time has come to write a review....
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Professor Xie has published hundreds of essays over many years. Some have been collected in his books: Trade is a Substitue for War, Every Man a Capitalist, and No Such Thing as Market Failure. Many were published online. After his silence, most of those online articles are gone over time. More translations will follow.
Writing the The "30 Million Single Men" Scare Is Unfounded, my sole intention was to refute the so-called experts and scholars who, with their alarmist and unfounded fears, claim that "30 Million Single Men" will lead to serious social problems.
My reasoning was this: since prices balance supply...
A news report suggests that China will have between 30 and 40 million single men in 2020. A predicted social dilemma seems to surface, with 30 million bachelors gathering to protest social injustice, facing a future of having no one to rely on in old age and dying alone—a situation that would create...
