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Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures and tables
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Chinese Lines of Evolution
Section 1 The agency of the state
1 People’s Livelihoods and Good Governance in the Past and for the Future
References
2 Justifying Office-Selling for Famine Relief in Nineteenth-Century Qing China
Office-selling in China
Office-selling and State Sovereignty
Centre–province Conflicts in Famine Relief Contributions
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 The Cost of Security: Financing Yellow River Hydraulics During the Late Imperial Period
Early Qing
Material Problems
Spinning Out of Control
Demise and Devolution
Some Preliminary Conclusions
Notes
References
Section 2 Land, interest and usury
4 Outline of the Institutions for Land Transactions in Traditional China
The Theoretical Reconstruction of Forms of Land Tenure
A Systematic Discussion of the Land Transaction System
The Dian . Right and Its Transaction
An Analysis of Various Land Transaction Forms
The Transmutation Process of Land Rights System
Land Rights Markets, Family Farms and Characteristics of the Traditional Economy
The Connection and Influence of Land Tenure Markets and Individual Family Farms
Reconstructing Share Tenancy: A Reflection On the “Optimal Owner-Peasant”
Corporate Property Rights, Civil Organisation and Grass-Roots Order
The Transformation of the Modern Land Rights System and Cognitive Misunderstandings
An Examination and Analysis of Land Holdings
Equalisation of Land Rights: A Reflection On History and Reality
Dilemmas and Perceptions of the Transition From Traditional to Modern Economies
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Notes
References
5 Loans and Interest Rates in Traditional China
Introduction
Development of Interest Rates in Ancient China
Interest Rates During the Song and Yuan Dynasties
Formal and Informal Credit-Providing Institutions
Loans for Soldiers and Officials
Records of Interest Rates in Legal Texts
Conclusion
Note
References
6 Foreign Currencies in Ancient and Premodern China
Introduction
Dimensions of Knowledge of Foreign Coins in Ancient China
Ancient and Premodern Chinese Numismatics
Knowledge of Exchange Ratios and Influences of Foreign Currencies in Ancient China
Knowledge Regarding the Management of Foreign Currencies in Traditional China
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II European Lines of Evolution
Section 1 From rationalisations of usury to deductive theories of interest
7 Theorising Interest: How Did It All Begin? Some Landmarks in the Prohibition of Usury in Scholastic Economic Thought
Introduction
Allocating the Surplus From Exchange
Thomas Aquinas’s Classical Argument
The Contractual Framework of the Money Loan: The Mutuum
What Can Generate an Income?
The Material and the Formal Causes of Exchange
Interest as a Compensation of a Harm From Outside the Loan: Extrinsic Titles
Substitutes for an Interest Loan
Conclusion: An Economic Theorist’s View On What Happened
Note
References
8 Merchants and the New Catholic View On the Economy: Florence and Augsburg Between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Law Systems and the Emergence of Economic Rationalisation
The New Catholic View On the Economy: Italy
The New Catholic View On the Economy: Johann Eck and Southern Germany
Notes
References
9 From Kaspar Klock’s “De Aerario” (1651) and Leibniz’s “Meditatio De Interusurio Simplice” to Florencourt’s “Abhandlungen Aus Der Juristischen Und Der Politischen Rechenkunst” (1781): How Calculus Led From the Logic of a Device for Circumventing
Economic Knowledge: A Factor of Development?
Kaspar Klock On Usury
Leibniz: The Anti-Critique of Usury in Mathematical Disguise
The Mathematical Jurists and Florencourt
An Intercultural Comparison and Conclusion
Notes
References
10 Interest On Money, Own Rate of Interest, the Natural Interest Rate and the Rate of Profits: A Short History of Concepts Ultimately Emerging From the Usury Debate
Introduction
Commodity Rates of Interest
Money Rate of Interest
Natural Rate of Interest
Rate of Profits
References
Section 2 The spread of monetary relations and the transition from poor relief to the welfare state
11 Labour and Poverty in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Premise: Labour in Ancient Society and the Dark Ages
The Middle Ages: Poverty as a Positive Value
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Poverty Discredited – Both Voluntary and Involuntary
The System of Productive Assistance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
The Parasitic System of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain
Notes
I Thank the Participants in the Conference On Chinese and European Thought (Bad Homburg, Febr. 2019) for Their Useful Comments.
References
12 After China, Before Sweden and England: The Circulation of Paper Money in Naples
Introduction
Metallism and Cartalism
The Public Banks and Their Fiduciary Circulation
Conclusion
Notes
References
13 European Models and Transformations of the Welfare State
Principles of Welfare State Policies
Germany’s Social Market Economy
Swedish Welfare Socialism
Dynamic Instability and Transformation
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part III Contact, Comparison and Interaction
Section 1 Before the revolutions
14 Xunzi and Plato On the Economics of Totalitarianism: A Meeting of Distant Minds
Xunzi’s “Economics of Totalitarianism”: Overview
Xunzi’s Political Economy: Further Considerations
Xunzi and Plato: A Comparison
Conclusion
Notes
References
15 Yantie Lun in the Pro-Legalist and Anti-Confucian Campaign
Rhetoric and the Origin of Confucian–legalist Conflict
Innuendo During the Cultural Revolution
Zhua Geming Cu Shengchan ....... (Engaging in Revolution, Promoting Productivity), Enlightenment and Reform
A Balance of Confucians and Legalists: A Tentative Framework of the New Political Economy in China
Acknowledgements
References
16 A Critical Examination of Chinese Influences On Quesnay
Brief History of an Interpretation
What Do We Mean By “Influence”?
Quesnay’s Sources
Aspects of Alleged Influence
The Tableau Économique and Circular Flow
The “Natural Order” and Laissez-Faire
Legal Despotism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Section 2 The traces of the past in the transition to modernity
17 Rethinking Traditional Attitudes Towards Consumption in the Process of Formation of Chinese Economics (Late Qing and Republican Periods)
Introduction
Chen Huanzhang and The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School (1911)
Yuan Xianneng and The Influence of Taoism and Related Philosophies On Chinese Economic Thought (1930)
Li Quanshi and The Short History of Chinese Economic Thought (1927)
Tang Qingzeng and The History of Chinese Economic Thought (1936)
Conclusion
References
18 China’s Ancient Principles of Price Regulation Through Market Participation: The Guanzi From a Comparative Perspective
Introduction
The Guanzi’s Conception of Price Regulation Through the Market
The Historical Context
The Light–heavy Principles
Balancing the Grain Price
Conclusion
Notes
References
19 Confucian Entrepreneurship and Moral Guidelines for Business in China
Tensions Between Confucianism and Entrepreneurship
Confucius’s Critical View of Profit-Making
Mencius’s Rejection of Profit
Anti-merchant Bias and Social Stratification
Social Stratification: The “Four Occupations”
Hybrid Scholar-Merchants
Rise, Disruption and Re-Emergence of Entrepreneur Culture in China
Reappraisal of Entrepreneurialism With the Arrival of Western Influence
Disruption of Confucian Culture and Entrepreneurism in China
The Return of the Market and a Confucian Revival
Discourse and Practice of Contemporary Confucian Entrepreneurship
Re-emergence of Confucian Entrepreneurship On the Mainland
Discourse Between Business People and Scholars
Contemporary Confucian Entrepreneur Practice
Mao Zhongqun ... and the “Confucian Way of FOTILE”
Wu Nianbo ... and the “Happy Enterprise” of GOOD-ARK
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part IV Conclusions and Perspectives
20 Towards a Systematic Comparison of Different Forms of Economic Thought
Comparing Economic Thought in East and West: Initial Conditions
Trajectories of Economic Thought
Economy and Society, and the Role of the State
The Emergence of the History of Chinese Economic Thought
Conclusion: The Significance of the History of Chinese Economic Thought Today
References
Index