The Gains and Losses of Economic Change in the Past Dynasties (Collector's Edition)

One of the "Top Ten Best Books of 2013" by Asia Weekly

One of the "Top Ten Best Books of 2013" by Sina.com

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In this book, Wu Xiaobo puts forward two conclusions that may cause controversy:

First, the great economic rise in the past thirty years is not so much an "unintended consequence of human behavior", but a rational evolution in the history of economic reforms in the past two thousand years, and we are still in danger of falling into the closed-loop logic of history;

Second, the "structural flaw" in China's economic system is a "constructive result" that has an inseparable relationship with the centralized system that has maintained unity for thousands of years.

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※brief introduction※

Over the past two thousand years, China has undergone more than a dozen major economic reforms, each of which followed social development and had a major impact on the course of history. Now, the new social development has put forward the requirement of continuous change.

This book is the culmination of the author's research on the history of China's economic reforms in recent years. It systematically summarizes and compares various measures and practices of more than a dozen major economic reforms in Chinese history. It summarizes the historical context of Chinese-style reforms, and analyzes the internal logic and laws hidden in the economic reforms of the past dynasties. Refuting the gains and losses, and taking history as a mirror, it is indeed a concise "Chinese economic history".