Keynes in China

2001-02-04 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
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

Re: Keynes in China

2001-02-04 Thread Alexander Robert William Robson
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

lobbying as a public goods problem

2001-02-04 Thread Wei Dai
Reading Jonathan Rauch's _Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891620495) made me wonder how special-interest lobbies solved the public goods problem. Why does an individual contribute to a lobbying organization when he can let someone else