Successes and losses of economic change in past dynasties

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• 1: Rise or crash, that is the question
• 2: "When divided for a long time, we must unite, and when we unite for a long time, we must divide." Whose "general trend" is it?
• 3: Two Research Tools and Two Conclusions
• 4: Lecture 1 Guan Zhong Reform: "Keynesianism" more than 2,000 years ago
• 5: "Release the micro, control the macro"
• 6: The Instigator of the "Salt and Iron Franchise"
• 7: heresy that encourages consumption
• 8: "Stop War with Business" and Peaceful Hegemony
• 9: Ancient Chinese version of "Cairns"
• 10: The second lecture is Shang Yang's reform: the originator of command-type planned economy
• 11: The military knight system: creating the world's first civilian society
• 12: The county system: the political prototype of the local administrative system
• 13: The Logic of a Powerful Nation: The Founder of a Centralized Power System
• 14: Mao Zedong: "A hundred generations will follow Qin's political law"
• 15: Lecture 3: Reform of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: A master of top-level design
• 16: Liu Che: The master of the unified system
• 17: Industrial Reform: Casting Coins, Salt and Iron, and Brewing
• 18: Circulation Reform: Equal Loss and Leveling
• 19: Tax Reform: Notices and Compensation Orders
• 20: The reform created the first "half a billion empire"
• 21: Negative Effects and Controversies of the Reform
• 22: Salt and Iron Conference and "Sang Hongyang's Question"
• 23: Lecture 4 Wang Mang Reform: The Reform of the First Socialist
• 24: The Three Battlefields of Reform: Finance, Currency and Land
• 25: The worst reform results
• 26: Liu Xiu's failure to wage war on the clan
• 27: An Economic Interpretation of "The Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring"
• 28: Lecture Five Governing the Country by the People: The Most Prosperous Dynasty and the Smallest Government
• 29: Li Shimin Solved the Troubles of Official Administration and Military Administration
• 30: Controversies and Controversies About the Franchise Policy
• 31: The unprecedented prosperity of the urban economy
• 32: Liu Yan's Reform: The Return of the Monopoly System
• 33: Five Ways Out for Private Industrial and Commercial Capital
• 34: Lecture Six: Wang Anshi's Reform: The Final Overall Supporting Reform
• 35: Laxity and Prohibition Simultaneously
• 36: The Stereotype of the Gentry Economy
• 37: The second round of "Yanhe Dianting Debate" in the millennium
• 38: The last overall supporting system reform
• 39: "Reform Specimen" Wang Anshi
• 40: Changes in "World Time"
• 41: Lecture Seven: The Stagnation of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Consequences of Continental Isolationism
• 42: Iron Barrel Array: Closed to the outside world
• 43: Dispersing sand technique: men plowing and women weaving inside
• 44: The decline in the rate of urbanization
• 45: Early warning of "rotational inertia"
• 46: The business economy trapped in the quagmire of government and businessmen
• 47: 'Ultra-stable structures' broken by guns
• 48: Lecture 8: Westernization Movement: Modernization without modernity
• 49: Taking Railways as an Example: The Choice between Development and Stability
• 50: Taking China Merchants Steamship as an example: the choice between state-run and private-owned
• 51: Comparison between China and Japan: Westernization Movement and Meiji Restoration
• 52: Merchants and intellectual elites "meet" outside the system
• 53: The Constitutional Movement: The Choice Between Political Reform and Economic Reform
• 54: The Institutional Legacy of the Westernization Movement
• 55: Lecture 9 Two Republics of China: From Extreme Freedom to "Controlled Economy"
• 56: An unprecedentedly strong private economy
• 57: Zemstvo experiment
• 58: dictator hailed back
• 59: The KMT's Economic Proposition
• 60: Five Ways to Squeeze Private Capital
• 61: Economic Policy Mistakes After 1945
• 62: Lecture 10: Planned Economy: A Great Experiment From Self-Conceit to Self-Destruction
• 63: "The First Five-Year Plan": The Construction Model of a Planned Economy
• 64: Seven years to eliminate the private economy
• 65: Two self-destructive economic movements
• 66: Reclaiming Land: Three Benefits for Governments
• 67: The "Cultural Revolution": Ten Years of Disorder
• 68: Lecture 11 Reform and Opening Up (Part 1): Reform without a Blueprint
• 69: Incremental Reform: An Industrialization Movement Started by Peasants
• 70: The Role of the Central Government: Decentralization and Disequilibrium Strategies
• 71: The role of local government: active participation and risk support
• 72: "Where is the main battlefield of reform"
• 73: Price breakthrough: "unexpected failure" at the turning point
• 74: The 1980s: "All reforms start with breaking the law"
• 75: Lecture 12 Reform and Opening Up (Part 2): The Return of Totalitarianism
• 76: "Troika" in 1998
• 77: The Jedi recovery of state-owned enterprises
• 78: "The Rise of Great Powers" and Zhu's Logic
• 79: From the Tieben Case to the Four Trillion Plan: The Sixth "National Advancement and Private Retreat"
• 80: Development and equity: the twin dilemmas of 2013
• 81: Epilogue Back to the fundamentals of history
• 82: Two eternal themes: decentralization and equal wealth
• 83: The three most special battlefields: state-owned economy, land and financial industry
• 84: Four new forces never seen before: the Internet, NGOs, entrepreneurs and liberal intellectuals
• 85: Postscript