Chapter 103 Political Economy
A bright moon hung in the middle of the sky, and the moonlight was sprinkled like water on the world.
There was silence all around, except for the crackling of the wood of the campfire as it burned.
Suddenly, a melodious bamboo flute sounded, and it spread to all directions in this empty peninsula in the middle of the lake.
John and Ollie were quiet at this time, listening to the beautiful melody with the others.
After the song was played, Mr. Lin set up Zhou Nan's violin, looked at the score, and also played it.
Audrey leaned to the side and sang softly in her not-so-nice voice.
The song played by Zhou Nan is "When is the Bright Moon" from a later singer, and artistically speaking, this song is very ordinary. The main reason is that this song can be regarded as the quintessence of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, and countless people want to compose music for this song, but none of them can be truly accepted by the public.
The tune of this piece is light and smart, although it does not show the grandeur, but it also shows a kind of self-pity and alienation in place, above the passing line.
Although it's not a saliva song, it can only be regarded as a small song. However, because of this, after looking at the score and listening to it once, many people who understand music can sing it along.
Even Mr. Liang couldn't help but sing along, and the students began to sing along, regardless of whether they were out of tune or not.
Although Mr. Lin is not a professional, he plays the violin well, at least better than Audrey's. The violin she played was paired with the bamboo flute played by Zhou Nan, and the two kinds of music were perfectly blended.
Although Stolko and Etinny did not understand the Chinese meaning of this song, they also listened quietly when they heard such music.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mr. Liang will leave Switzerland, but Mr. Lin will not leave.
In the past six months, they have negotiated with Coatbus on the overall tone of the design, and the planning of the commercial street has basically reached an agreement.
So Mr. Liang will return to Asia to concentrate on designing the layout and architecture of the University of South China.
Zhou Nan's request is not to care about the funds, to build the world's most beautiful university, and the capacity of students must reach more than 10,000.
Three million dollars is a lot of money in this era, and the land in Nanhua does not need money, the building materials can be provided by themselves at cost price, and the labor of workers is even cheaper, and it is still possible to build a university.
It's just not enough, Zhou Nan can continue to provide funds in the future. Moreover, at present, the donations of Chinese in Southeast Asia have exceeded 3 million US dollars. With so much money, just building a campus is enough.
Of course, for a university to succeed, the hardware conditions of the campus are only the most basic. What's more, the direction of development of this university, the famous professors, the leading disciplines, these are even more important.
Zhou Nan has planned the development of this university in his heart, and Nanhua will definitely follow the path of Stanford University in the future, combine education and business, and embark on a new path in electronic science and technology.
Therefore, when he was demarcating the territory, he not only directly asked for Wutong Mountain, but also asked for all the land that was 12 kilometers long from east to west and 6 kilometers wide from north to south from the sea to the mountainous area, and the total area of the university reached 72 square kilometers.
And this is not the area that has already been determined, if the university wants to expand in the future, it can buy more land at a low price.
With such a large area, of course, it is impossible to treat it as a campus. Zhou Nan had already communicated with Cai Lao and them directly, and each department after the university would set up different laboratories to cooperate with commercial companies for research and development.
In the future, it is even possible for this university to set up its own company, of course, these are just ideas now, and if you want Zhuo University to burst out with a certain competitiveness, it is impossible without more than ten years of precipitation.
But who let Zhou Nan have the memory of later generations, know which people are academic experts, and know which people will succeed. Those who are good in physics, chemistry, and electronics, he can start hiring them with a high salary first and hitch a ride with them.
In short, everything must be well funded.
Mr. Lin will stay at Jonas Manor, and she will be responsible for the design of the Oriental Museum, and she will also need to control the style of the shopping street, and she will also have to recuperate in Switzerland.
Even if her illness is cured, Zhou Nan doesn't want to let her go back, the future ups and downs are really not suitable for a weak woman like her.
He didn't want her to be like another life, because he opposed the demolition of the ancient buildings in the capital and refused treatment, and as a result, he died.
She is such an unearthly woman, she is really not suitable for rolling in the red dust.
Because she will never learn, she will never compromise!
Therefore, Zhou Nan has been bewitching her and asking her to take her two children out and go to Europe for education.
They made a small fortune just by designing the museum and the shopping street. Now the campus design of the University of South China can make them and their wives become rich among scholars, so it is not a burden to bear the cost of studying abroad for their two children.
Mr. Liang had no opinion on this, and let Mr. Lin call the shots, but Mr. Lin did not make up his mind.
Zhou Nan is not in a hurry, and when Mr. Lin wants to leave Switzerland, he will ask her to design a Chinese garden for her home, which will definitely slow down her return to China.
At the southern end of the peninsula, there are two small mountains on the east side of the main house, and between the two small mountains is a small valley. The top of the peninsula resembles a dog's head, and that valley is where the open mouth is.
Because of the topography, the lake water poured in more than ten meters, forming a low-lying land. Zhou Nan originally thought about building a garden there, but it was not included in the plan.
Now with this first-class designer, Zhou Nan will certainly not let it go. However, in order to slow down her return to China, Zhou Nan didn't mention it now, and it was not too late to talk about it when she wanted to go back.
On October 1, Zhou Nan came to Bern for a regular weekly meeting. In the leisure time of the meeting, Zhou Nan put forward a proposal for comprehensive cooperation between Switzerland and South China in the fields of education, finance, industry and agriculture.
People from all walks of life in Switzerland are also very interested in cooperation with South China, but South China has not yet established a state, so all this will have to wait until later.
After returning home in the evening, Zhou Nan did not write a book, but began to organize the lessons to be taken tomorrow.
The dividing ridge between modern political economy and classical political economy should start with Max's Capital.
Capital explains the prehistory of capital from the first part, the process of commodities (money) to money (commodities).
The second part - the process of converting money into capital, explains the history of the transformation of capital.
Chapters 3 to 6 – The process of production of surplus value – illustrate the ongoing history of the occurrence of capital.
Finally, the seventh part, the process of capital accumulation, illustrates the overall history of the movement in which capital occurred.
The theory of capital (historical) generation refines the principles of the generation and development of capitalism, making Capital a systematic logic of the organic structure of capitalist society.
This special logic aims to unify the research objects and research methods, and highly highlights the disciplinary methodology of political economy.
However, there is one very crucial issue that Max failed to point out, and that is the interaction between political and economic models.
More importantly, he is a well-known methodist, or rather a theorist. He had no choice on how to link theory with practice, let politics serve the economy, and let the economy lay the foundation for politics.
Theoretically, Zhou Nan did not think that he could surpass Max, so he mainly borrowed Marx's theoretical framework, and then added Sismondi's political and economic theory.
Before Sismondi, Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say were all representatives of the free economy. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, their theories did greatly promote the economy, but when the scale of the economy became larger, many of their theories became outdated.
Sismondi was the first economist to break with the tradition of economic liberalism. He argues that economic liberalism has brought disaster to society, and that the free development of private interests often harms the public interest. He demanded that the dependence on state policies regulate socio-economic life as an alternative to economic liberalism.
Max was actually influenced by him to produce his later theoretical masterpieces.
With the experience of later generations, Zhou Nan is well aware of how much damage the free economy does to society. Even though Western society has gradually strengthened the mediating role of the government in the economic link, financial crises and economic crises still come again and again.
Therefore, Zhou Nan is a proponent of the mixed economic policy, and he is in favor of a certain degree of freedom in the economic sector, but it is absolutely necessary to strengthen the government's management role in the economic sector.
However, how to grasp the balance in this is by no means something that he, a theorist, can do.
To give a very simple example, during the reform in the 90s, state-owned enterprises collapsed one by one because their system was completely unadapted to the market.
However, the complete liberalization of the market will only create moths, and it took the country more than ten years to reverse the economic trend in this area.
A theorist like Zhou Nan, he understands the general trend and knows the rules of the economy.
He knows that the government should not only assume more management functions, but also control industries related to national security, and the most appropriate policy is to focus on the big and let go of the small.
Because only in this way can the government have a greater ability to resist risks and explode greater development potential.
However, if he does not understand the specific market conditions, does not know how to deal with interpersonal relationships, and does not know how to coordinate the run-in of economic operations, then he can only be a theoretician forever.
Teaching and educating people is actually the most suitable position for Zhou Nan. It is only because his ability in a certain aspect is so outstanding that he has now become the object of attention of governments.
After finishing tomorrow's lesson, he heard Mr. Lin talking to Audrey about a math problem in the study next to him. Audrey asked carefully, and Mr. Lin didn't get tired of talking to her in detail.
Compared with Lady Hemstra and Caroline's mothers, Audrey obviously gets along better and more harmoniously with Mr. Lin.
This kind of life is really good.