Someone has estimated that a person can read no more than 3,000 books in his lifetime, and less than 1,000 are worth collecting. If you talk about the classics and good books that must be read, there may not be more than 100 books. When it comes to a specific area, there are only a handful of things that deserve to be read over and over again.
Therefore, in the dazzling book market, how to select the most worthy of collecting classic books has become the top priority of reading.
Historian He Bingdi once proposed "three first-class" as the criteria for selecting good books:
First, it answers first-class root questions. For example, Montesquieu answered the fundamental question of human politics of "how to make the rule of law possible with limited government".
Second, come up with first-class new ideas. For example, Adam Smith put forward the idea that "the division of labor makes human beings happier", and modern economics was born.
Third, talk to top-notch thinkers. For example, Hayek inherited and developed the essence of the ideas of Hume, Kant, Darwin and other sages, and expanded bounded rationality to the study of human society.
Therefore, "On the Spirit of the Law", "On the Wealth of Nations", and "The Road to Serfdom" have become classics, which have been cited by intellectual circles and have become indispensable on the desks of social science enthusiasts.
In fact, many modern works have reached the same standard, but for various reasons, they are only famous abroad and are rarely understood by Chinese people. William Baumer's "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism" is such a contemporary classic with "three first-class".
How can the economy continue to grow - the question is asked, the economy is answeredLearn the "meta-problem".
At present, the most hotly debated issues among most economists, such as the troika, industrial policy, minimum wage, export and import quotas, and protection, are actually branch issues of economics.
In fact, there has always been only one central question in economics – "how to make the economy grow sustainably". Smith's Wealth of Nations began with this question, as did the central character of modern civilization, and the American economist Robert Lucas even asserted that "once people begin to think about economic growth, there is no time for anything else."
Robert Lucas's Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, as its subtitle suggests, "The Economics of Growth and Prosperity," does not address the last issues of economicsRather, it is "why does the economy of a country or era grow or stagnation?"."This meta-problem of economics.
There are four types of capitalism, and only one good one is proposed – a completely new classification of capitalism has been proposedWhen it comes to capitalism, most people's minds are swayed by a few clichés:
It has been said that capitalism is a transitional stage between feudalism and "high society";
It has been said that capitalism is a order peculiar to the West that other civilizations cannot adapt;There are also people who firmly believe that capitalism is an order in which capitalists squeeze workers, and that it will eventually ...... completely destroyed due to polarization and economic crisis
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism" breaks through the limitations of "the theory of historical stages", "the theory of Western inevitability", and "the theory of total superiority", and is based on "the driving force and form of economic growth".Creatively divide all capitalism into four categories:
State-oriented capitalism
Isabella: Queen of Spain Oligarchic capitalism.
Berezovsky: The late Russian financial oligarchyBig corporate capitalism
Entrepreneurial capitalism
And of these four types, except for entrepreneurial capitalism, the others are all bad capitalism. Equal property rights protection and an open market environment make entrepreneurs the main body of growth, and innovation becomes the main source of profits, and this kind of entrepreneurial capitalism is the only type to maintain sustained economic growth for a long time. Its typical representative is the United States, and its far leading Silicon Valley information industry.
The book also boldly defines,SoBy "developing countries", we do not refer to low-income countries, but to countries where "property rights are not protected, the state is misguided, and entrepreneurship cannot be developed". As a result, poverty in developing countries is chronic;In developed countries, everyone can become an entrepreneur, and prosperity will continue.
Schumpeter, North, Yang Xiaokai - standing on the shoulders of Nobel laureates to see through the futureDialogue between thinkers can have a profound impact. Darwin stood on the shoulders of the Scottish Enlightenment and discovered the laws of the evolution of life;Standing on the shoulders of Hume and Kant, Hayek realized the finitude of human reason and the incomputability of society.
Since the beginning of the last century, the economist Schumpeter, the Nobel laureate North, and the untimely death of Yang Xiaokai have begun to study capitalism from the perspectives of "entrepreneurship and innovation, property rights protection, and civilized order". It is on the shoulders of these masters of thought that this book "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism" discovers the importance of "innovative capitalism" to economic development and the rise and fall of civilization.
At a time when the downward pressure on the economy is increasing sharply, this book has important reference value for understanding the current "Chinese economy", "boosting the confidence of entrepreneurs", and bringing China's economy back to the track of high growth.
When the Chinese version of this book was first published, famous scholars and entrepreneurs such as Wu Jinglian, Zhang Weiying, and Liu Chuanzhi all issued articles recommending it. Nobel laureate Akerlof commented on the book: "Powell's new ideas on national wealth will guide economic decision-making in all countries, including the richest and poorest." This book is ambitious, innovative, profound, and bold......”
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