A friend alerted me to a wonderful and much deserved new festschrift for Prof. Mao Yushi, one of China’s most courageous economists, and the founder of the Unirule Institute of Economics. The book, entitled An 80 Year Retrospective features 40 pages of autobiography, and then scores of essays by friends and libertarians on the influence of Prof. Mao in China. Some of our Atlas friends, including Feng Xingyuan and Chen Qinglan (one of Guominliyi.org‘s editors), are featured in the book.
Sadly, there’s no English version, but it is still a great reminder of the influence Prof. Mao had and continues to have in Mainland China. While buying the book yesterday, I asked the store clerk if they had other books by, or about Prof. Mao, and was surprised when they pulled up 25 other books that he’d either written or edited. I walked away with three, including the 3rd edition of his The Economics of Everyday Life, a brilliant collection of short essays on how and why the market economy works so well. Seeing these wonderful books, it’s a shame that there aren’t more translations into English of the work of Chinese economists and libertarians.
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