ABSTRACT

This text provides an ethnography of a Chinese middle school based on fieldwork conducted in 1988 to 1989. It provides a way of looking at classroom and societal interactions in terms of the interplay among criticism, face and shame.

part I|121 pages

Institutionalism—A Basic Perspective

section |51 pages

Dissent from Orthodox Theory

section |61 pages

Mainstream Microeconomics

section |7 pages

Positioning Institutional Economics

part II|56 pages

Institutionalism and Concentrated Power

part III|34 pages

The Role of the Public Sector

part V|31 pages

Institutionalism and the Obligations of the Economist

chapter 16|7 pages

Institutionalism Confronts the 1990s

chapter 18|14 pages

Why Be an Economist?