On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
>
> A new graduate student in my department told me that at Beijing
> University, econ undergraduates are not taught Keynesian economics -
> they get a good dose of Marxism and then they get hooked up with
> monetarism!!
>
> Can anybody else verify this? Is China liberalized enough so that
> students are allowed to openly be taught free market economics?
>
I have some Chinese grad student friends and I get the impression that
what you say is correct.
But at the beginning of every one of these free-market economics books,
my friends tell me that the government prints a short "caveat emptor".
This basically states that the free-market ideas in the book are all
wrong, and that the students are being taught about these ideas so they
can see (i) how wrong these ideas really are, and (ii) how great Marx
is in comparison.
Alex Robson
UC Irvine
