Several years ago, if I recall correctly, I read in AEI's newsletter
that Gottfried Harberler's _Propserity and Depression_ was being used
as a text in China.
Carl Close
The Independent Institute
>but being in china for 2 summers. as i can see that as time goes on,
>they're becoming a bit more liberal on things
>
>At 06:20 PM 2/4/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>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
