| Status | 已發表Published |
| The economics of the division of labour in early Chinese literature | |
Sun, G. Z.
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| 2016 | |
| Source Publication | European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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| ISSN | 0967-2567 |
| Pages | 102-126 |
| Abstract | Like their Greek counterparts, a number of Chinese thinkers of the “Axial Period” wrote extensively on the division of labor. In particular, Kuan Chung, Hsün Tzu, and Ssu-ma Ch’ien explicitly discussed economic issues related to the division of labor, contributing sophisticated analysis on the subject. In this article we first examine Kuan Chung and his followers’ fairly interesting analysis of the economies of agglomeration of specialists, and Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s deep insight into the Taoist invisible hand of the market in coordinating the division of labor. The common ground between them is a sound understanding of the role of market exchange in facilitating the social division of labor, but the latter goes much further in appreciation of the spontaneous market order. We then turn to Hsün Tzu’s profound scholarship of specialized learning or doing and his Confucian theory of the origin of social division, highlighting, in particular, his Confucian notion of natural equality and utilitarian account of the formation of society. |
| Keyword | division of labor |
| URL | View the original |
| Language | 英語English |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 23422 |
| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Sun, G. Z.. The economics of the division of labour in early Chinese literature[J]. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2016, 102-126. |
| APA | Sun, G. Z..(2016). The economics of the division of labour in early Chinese literature. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 102-126. |
| MLA | Sun, G. Z.."The economics of the division of labour in early Chinese literature".European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2016):102-126. |
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