神州版序
Foreword by Ronald H. Coase
原序:求学奇遇记(Author''s Preface: An Intellectual Odyssey)
I. Three Lectures
1. Economic Explanation: Let Us Ride with the Surging Tide
2. Deng Xiaoping''s Great Transformation
3. The Transaction Costs Paradigm
II. Contract Theory: form Sharecropping to the Firm
4. Private Property Rights and Sharecropping
5. Transaction Costs, Risk Aversion, and the Choice of Contractual
Arrangements
6. The Structure of a Contract and the Theory of a Non-Exclusive
Resource
7. The Contractual Nature of the Firm
8. Economic Organization and Transaction Costs
9. On the New Institutional Economics
III. Social Cost Theory
10. Coase, Ronald Harry
11. The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation
12. The Theory of Inter-Individual Effects and the Demand for
Contracts
13. The Myth of Social Cost
IV. Intricate Pricing Arrangements
14. The Enforcement of Property Rights in Children, and the
Marriage Contract
15. Rose Bowl vs. Hong Kong: The Economics of Seat Pricing
16. Commodity Futures: On the Distinction between Commodity
Exchange and Crude Oil Exchange
V. Price and Rent Control
17. A Theory of Price control
18. Roofs or Stars: The Stated Intents and Actual Effects of a
Rents Ordiance
19. Rent Control and Housing Reconstruction: The Postwar Experience
of Prewar Premises in Hong Kong
VI. Intellectual Property Rights
20. Property Rights and Invention
VII. China''s Economic Reforms
21. Irving Fisher and the Red Guards
22. Will China go Capitalist?
23. China in Transition: Where Is She Heading Now?
24. Privatization vs. Special Interest: The Experience of China''s
Economic Reforms
25. Economic Interactions: China vis-a-vis Hong Kong
VIII. Political Economics
26. Why Is There a Lack of Freedom Under Communism?
27. A Simplistic General Equilibrium Theory of Corruption
28. The Curse of Democracy as an Instrument of Reform in Collapsed
Communist Economies
29. Common Property Rights
IX. Newspaper Commentaries
30. China''s Ten Black Marks
31. From China Maids to Rents-a-Slave
32. Learn From China''s Experience
33. On the Wrong Wave Length
Index