Baowei Shan

Is "Overcapacity" a Real Market Failure? Parallel Pitfalls in Chinese Capital Regulation and EU Trade Discourse

In contemporary global economic and trade debates, the accusation of "overcapacity" against Chinese manufacturing recurs frequently within EU public discourse. Meanwhile, China's economic-governance practice contains another under-recognized non-market qualitative rhetoric: evalu...

Misleading Non-Market Discourses in Global Economic Governance: A Re-examination from the Austrian-School Perspective

In contemporary global economic and trade debates, the accusation of "overcapacity" against Chinese manufacturing recurs frequently within EU public discourse. Meanwhile, China's economic-governance practice contains another under-recognized non-market qualitative rhetoric: evalu...

The Permanent Divide in Cognitive Paradigms: Chinese Civilization's Continuous Inferiority to European Civilization from Civilizational Genesis to the Present

In comparative studies of Chinese and Western civilizations, the mainstream view in contemporary Chinese academia adopts a multicultural narrative holding that "Chinese and Western civilizations followed different paths, with neither superior to the other." It attributes China's...

Prospective Expectation-Driven Balance Sheet Repair: An Extension of Koo's Theory and a Correction for the Chinese Context

Koo's balance sheet recession theory has become a mainstream analytical framework for explaining China's current weak domestic demand, private sector deleveraging, and persistent real estate market adjustment. However, this theory is rooted in the special historical conditions of...

Notes on Polanyi's Double-Movement Thesis: Conflict Conditions and Epistemological Considerations

Karl Polanyi's double movement provides a classic macroscopic narrative for understanding market expansion and social backlash. Nevertheless, it remains a descriptive historical framework lacking micro‑level behavioral logic, causal boundaries, and epistemological reflection. Exi...

The Prisoner's Dilemma of Global Industrial Policies: Evolutionary Analysis of Interventionism from the Perspective of Excessive Transition Costs and Positive Cognitive Feedback

Mainstream trade economics interprets global industrial subsidies and state intervention through a static prisoner's dilemma framework, assuming fixed institutional rules and stable actor beliefs. This static paradigm fails to explain the dynamic resurgence of interventionism, th...

The Logic of Resource Transfer Under the Long-term Application of Keynesianism from the Perspective of Game Chip Ownership — A Refutation of the Proposition of "Beyond Keynesianism"

Existing macroeconomic literature has fully demonstrated that Keynesianism serves only as a short-term countercyclical policy tool. Its long-term regular implementation will trigger multiple constraints including debt accumulation, crowding-out of private investment, and declinin...

Freedom Without Blueprints: The Intrinsic Limitation of Social Schemes in Lao-Zhuang Philosophy and the Austrian School

Most comparative studies between Daoist thought and the Austrian School remain superficial, confined to listing vague similarities of "anti‑intervention" and "advocating freedom". Existing scholarship has consistently missed the most essential, paradigm‑defining consensus shared...

The Logic of Resource Transfer Under the Long-term Application of Keynesianism from the Perspective of Game Chip Ownership — A Refutation of the Proposition of "Beyond Keynesianism"

Existing macroeconomic literature has fully demonstrated that Keynesianism serves only as a short-term countercyclical policy tool. Its long-term regular implementation will trigger multiple constraints including debt accumulation, crowding-out of private investment, and declinin...

Freedom Without Blueprints: The Intrinsic Limitation of Social Schemes in Lao-Zhuang Philosophy and the Austrian School

Most comparative studies between Daoist thought and the Austrian School remain superficial, confined to listing vague similarities of "anti‑intervention" and "advocating freedom". Existing scholarship has consistently missed the most essential, paradigm‑defining consensus shared...