Economics has been divided into Microeconomics and Macroeconomics to date. While Microeconomics concerns under the atomic individualism the analysis of individual decisions, Macroeconomics empowers the government not only the duty to solve the externality problems but also the rights superior to ones of the market. According to such thinking, economists readily orientate themselves to efficiently convert configurations of political powers into wealth redistributions. Consequently, Economics becomes an ironic discipline as "the social science without justice." It is even criticized as a “pseudo-science” which has been far from the real society. Unfortunately, most economists have trapped in the pseudo-science over a long term after specializing in mathematics.
Authors of textbooks have also criticized such problems, but they only can solve it by adding few chapters under the stereotypical framework. It is the reason that contemporary economists seldom learn Political Economics. From perspectives of classical tradition of Political Economy, the mission of Economics is to change institutions, which strongly requires scholars to find a well political-economy for citizens by watching and updating the last social conditions. Accordingly, Economics is supposedly introduced Political Economics as Principles of Economics III, in addition to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.
This book is organized into five parts. Section 1 reviews the historical development of political economics and indicates the framework for teaching. Section 2 explores the fundamental concepts for Political Economics including the subjectivity of economical actions, entrepreneurship, and knowledge with capital accumulation. Section 3 argues the important issues for a free economy. Section 4 criticizes different political economies including planned economy, welfare states, social democracy, the third way, as well as theory of right and justice. Finally, Keynesian economic management together with the development for both economics and politics between Taiwan and China are discussed in Section 5.
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黄春兴 (Chun-Sin Hwang)
美国罗彻斯特大学(University of Rochester)经济学博士,现为国立清华大学副教授,专业研究领域为政治经济学,曾在国内外着名学术期刊发表不少文章,也常为台海两岸报刊撰写评论和杂文。