"This course focuses on Chinese people's thinking about the eternal contradictions between the limited resources and human's unlimited desires and its solution since Xia, Shang, and Zhou , including economic thought of pre-Qin Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Shangyang, Han Feizi and the business school, economic thought of the eastern han dynasty and the western han dynasty, economic thought of Wei, Jin and the Southern and Northern dynasty, economic thought of Sui and Tang dynasties, economic thought of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and so on. There are three purposes. The first is to let students understand the change of national economic thought, the second is to deepen students' understanding of the real economic problems, and the third is to let them understand the same nature of the development of human society by comparison with the Western economic thought.
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Economics
经济学是一门对产品和服务的生产、分配以及消费进行研究的社会科学，注重的是研究经济行为者在一个经济体系下的行为，以及他们彼此之间的互动，即人类经济活动的规律。 在现代，经济学的教材通常将这门领域的研究分为宏观经济学和微观经济学。微观经济学检视一个社会里基本层次的行为，包括个体的行为者以及与市场的互动。而宏观经济学则分析整个经济体和其议题，包括失业、通货膨胀、经济成长、财政和货币政策等。
