Subtitle of this chapter: Liberals must be anti-monopoly!

Just when Master Yuan was sleeping in a daze, he found that there was an extra person beside him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he opened his sleepy eyes and looked, the whole person shook suddenly, this guy knows himself!

The middle-aged man sitting next to him had a serious expression and a majestic appearance, a high forehead, a pointed nose, and a mustache, even if he sat there without saying a word, he looked very imposing.

The middle-aged man glanced at Yuan Yanqian lightly, with a faint reproachful look on his face, and seemed very dissatisfied with the student sleeping in class.

Our Master Yuan secretly said something bad in his heart, but he didn't know whether to explain or apologize for a while. However, he knew that if he left a bad impression on this old man, it would be a bit suspenseful for him to skip a grade and apply for a doctorate. This is because this gentleman is Mr. James-Byrant-Conant, Vice Chancellor of NYU and Vice President of the Professors' Senate. The vice-chancellor is of course also a scholar, but he is biased towards pedagogy.

Author's note: I didn't find the NYU board of trustees at that time, so I had to borrow the next president of Yale University. Well, that's the pain of being a reasonable author.

In fact, it doesn't matter what the vice president is, what matters is his status as vice president of the Senate. Although American private universities such as NYU are not governed purely by scholars' guilds like European universities, the status of the professors' council is also very high, which not only determines the promotion or even dismissal or conferring tenure of professors on the university, but also influences the evaluation of students' degrees.

At this moment, he heard Professor Chandra on the stage raise his voice and ask, "Who else wants to say?" ”

Our Master Yuan was in a hurry, stood up suddenly, and shouted, "Mr. Professor, I have something to say!" ”

"Uh...... Mr. Yuan. "In any case, this Teutonic knight is still very professional, even if he looks down on the Chinese, but he will not prevent Chinese students from speaking, and after this period of contact, he thinks that Yuan is still a little expected."

In fact, if it weren't for the damn Master Ball system limitations, our Yuan classmates would have been able to flood Stern College with dry goods overflowing to break through the sky...... Or even the entire economics community. He started by himself to create a New York School, and it is not possible for NYU to run economics for decades to come.

"Okay, please."

Unfortunately, Professor Chandler knew he had material, but the other students didn't. Can a Chinese student who doesn't know much have any high opinions, and do you have a high opinion of A Furong? Therefore, although the students who were doing it were not allowed to talk loudly due to the requirements of class records, they all showed disapproving expressions on their faces, and some even exchanged ears and had a small meeting.

Yuan Yanqian was not moved at all, he straightened his clothes, coughed lightly, and said, "What the students said just now is very inspiring to me......

I fell asleep after being inspired.

"In particular, I am deeply touched and admired by Mr. Louise Baker's humanitarian support for the nationalization of the mining industry. This is the position that a true gentleman should take. Although we are only students of NYU, as future economists, all of you, including myself, have a moral responsibility to the people! ”

Anyway, I heard what Baker had to say, and ...... What if there's a chance to hug your thighs?

As soon as he said this, a smile naturally appeared on the face of George F. Baker's grandson, and the other students who supported the nationalization of the mining industry could not help but start nodding. Even the vice-principal beside him loosened his brow, and the look on his face softened.

Are the American people of the twenties still very well fooled. Where is it like the American imperialist elite of later generations, who call pluralism on their lips, and think that everything in their hearts is business, and they are more and more like their English cousins.

"But......" Our Master Yuan raised his voice again and said a "but", then stopped and gathered all the essence and energy of his whole body to his eyes, and glanced at the faces of everyone present for a full two minutes......

Needless to say, this trick was learned from the greatest orator of all time, the mustache.

The mustache's trick is naturally very effective, everyone in the class was a little overwhelmed at first, then felt inexplicable, and finally had impatience, and at this moment, with a "boom", our Master Yuan finally fired!

But when we see a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, the right thing to do is to stay and quietly appreciate the touching miracle of life, rather than stepping forward to break through the cocoon and help the butterfly skip this difficult step. Otherwise, the most likely outcome is that this beautiful creature created by God can only struggle in the mud and end up in food for ants, spiders, and Hu Feng. ”

Take advantage of the time when everyone is thinking about what this poetic passage is actually about in four words: "pulling out seedlings and helping them grow". Yuan Yanqian sped up his speech and said:

"As students of political economy, we all know that monopolies are harmful. But what is more pernicious than the monopoly that occurs naturally in the free market is the monopoly created by the coercive intervention of the state. The latter is a hundred times worse than the former! No, it's a thousandfold!! It's not right, it's 10,000 times!! ”

Nationalization...... Well, the monopoly caused by nationalization is the root of all evil.

"It is well known that there is a tendency for large factories to become larger in the free market, but this is only the result of the division of labor, and large enterprises can meet the needs of a wider market. For similar reasons, there is a tendency to concentrate businesses. But let's not forget that even successful investing is still a risky business in nature, and there is always the possibility of losing all your money. Therefore, whether it is an individual investor, a board of directors composed of corporate shareholders, or an investment fund directly managed by a bank, they will take a cautious attitude so as not to lose their investment. But can anyone here guarantee that state-owned enterprises will be so cautious? ”

In this regard alone, Master Yuan is not wrong in saying that the biggest problem of nationalization is not the bureaucratization of enterprise management groups, in fact, whether it is private ownership, joint-stock system, or state-owned large enterprises, they will have this problem. Organizational bureaucratization is a necessary evil for large enterprises, or rather for an organizational system of a certain size.

Marx Weber said long ago that organizational bureaucratization is in fact the result of the rationalization of human life.

Author's note: Max Weber was a German political economist and sociologist, and is widely regarded as one of the most important founders of modern sociology and public administration. One of his best-known books is The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which is a must-read for beginners, especially Christians. Why should the public know to read this book, because you can get the point that "Chinese do not have faith".

Our Master Yuan said earnestly: "On the surface, the ideal of a nationalist society is no different from that of a capitalist society. Statism is not ready to overthrow the traditional legal order and formally transform all productive private property into public property. But in reality, as soon as this is started, all enterprises will slowly be taken over by the government. Every enterprise becomes an office, and every position is a civil servant. The government determines the price, decides what kind of goods are produced, decides how to produce, decides how much ...... to produce"

"Then we will see a situation where there is no speculation, there is no 'extra' profit, there is no loss, there is no innovation that is not predetermined by the government. The government directs and supervises everything! ”

"Students, isn't it terrible to see a government composed of professional bureaucrats directing and supervising everything?"

In fact, he said so much, and it can be summed up that the key issue of state-owned enterprises is related to the decision-making mechanism, that is, the layman leads the insider.

And what Yuan Yanqian said is the discussion of monopoly theory and nationalization in his book "Socialism".