Atlas’s Jude Blanchette reporting from the Yantze River Delta in China:
Li Ziyang of I, Pencil Research Institute lectures on capital theory at Guomin Liyi in Hangzhou.
We’re two days into our first Guomin Liyi (Citizens Interest) summer seminar here in a typhoon-drenched Hangzhou. The skies are miserable, but the turnout, both in terms of students and speakers, is better than we anticipated. We have over 70 students from all over China, with academics and independent scholars from over a dozen institutions.
Topics include Austrian economics, the importance of institutions for economic growth, the history of libertarianism, discovery and entrepreneurship, and China’s legal reform.
In addition to lectures (8 hours a day), students have been watching Milton Friedman’s PBS documentary Free to Choose with Chinese subtitles in the evening. Those pursuing PhDs have the opportunity to give presentations on their current research. Tomorrow we’re holding a discussion with professors on how libertarians students can combine their passion for free markets with a career in academia.
I’ll be posting more tomorrow, as well as some addition pictures.
Jude Blanchette is Atlas’s Institute Relations Associate for Asia located in Beijing.
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