2011-02-12

The temperament of the whole country is changing

Here's an article covering social mood in China, specifically business and entrepreneurs. It's an interview with Zhang Weiying. He talks about opposition to economic reform becoming grassroots. He talks about the need for crisis, or crisis mentality, to push reform. Now people are satisfied and want to spread the benefits, but he things maybe that can be an impetus for reform. This link takes you to the Google Translation of the article: 张维迎:整个国家的气质在发生变化_评论频道

In the opening paragraph the reporter relays his discussion of Ludwig Von Mises. (Google Translation follows)
Zhang Weiying casually talked about the Ludwig von Mises. Austrian School economists in the academic career of the late master of ratification later in a seemingly awkward position. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1940, nearly 60-year-old Mises even difficult to find a teaching post in the United States, as opposed to, any one from Europe's third-disciples of Marxism, can not so difficult to be accepted by the U.S. academic community. Even then he was funded by a foundation has been a professor at New York University post, he has been serving the university as their own, a second-rate scholars. "Mises's theory there are in marginalized for decades. But from the market and he began to accept the concept of freedom since, he has insisted, has always insisted to his death. You know in the second half of his academic life period, he has always been very marginalized. But he believes his logic. "


Here's an article by Zhang Weiying titled "Bury Keynesianism."

Here's some info on Zhang Weiyang from the "Hayek in China" blog. The I, Pencil Institute and Weiying Zhang

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