Thursday, December 8, 2016 | 2:00pm-3:00pm | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Abstract

Professor John Wong will discuss Xi Jinping’s “supply side policy of structural reform” from an outsider’s viewpoint. The presentation will trace the development of economic theory and macroeconomic policy from the Classical Economics of Adam Smith through the Neo-Classical and Keynesian economics to the rise of Monetarism, and then the supply side economics. The presentation will show how the idea of supply side structural reform is a good synthesis of economic ideas relevant to current economic malaise in China, not “Voodoo Economics” as was then perceived in America.