Subtitle of this chapter: Because I can only click on it, I scrapped a lot of manuscripts.

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Tuesday, March 22, 1921, light rain.

With a cigar in one hand and a blue velvet smoking jacket in the other, our Master Yuan stood in front of his study window and enjoyed the rain outside.

In this year, the costumes of Western gentlemen are still a bit complicated. When it comes to the most formal dresses, there are morning dresses and evening dresses.

Both of these dresses are tuxedos with a long back hem, and the biggest difference between the two is whether the upper and lower bodies are of the same color and color, and the evening dresses are basically all black. The most striking feature of the morning dress is its combination of black top and dark gray striped pants.

The morning gown was once worn by the European upper class to attend the Gold Cup race at the ASCOT Racecourse in England, so it was also called the "horse racing dress". Later, the morning dress was considered a formal dress for daytime ceremonies, Sunday church services, and weddings.

Looking at the old photographs of the early 20th century, most of the photos left by dignitaries were wearing morning gowns, and when it was cold, they wore dress coats called chaist coats. Little Japan, which is bent on "Toya's entry into Europe", has kept its morning dresses, even if the formal attire of Japanese government officials is the morning dress a hundred years later.

Although the tuxedo is still the first night dress, the tuxedo is also starting to become popular, especially the Americans, who are not as conservative as their British cousins, who are very fond of this more convenient dress.

The Tuxedo Suit was actually an upgrade from the smoking suit that Master Yuan now wears, and later almost completely replaced the tuxedo as a standard dress and formal dinner suit.

While the smoking suit is still a gentleman's interior attire, generally the fabric is silk and velvet to cope with the different seasons.

Therefore, for a gentleman, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all knowledge. If Yuan Yanqian hadn't brought the master ball system, he would have to ask someone for advice.

However, it was not because he wholeheartedly identified with Western culture as some Zhen-Gao Chinese that he deliberately dressed himself up as a Western gentleman. On the contrary, as a traverser, he does not feel that there is any superiority in the West.

Our Master Yuan is a man with a very "craftsman spirit". Since he has decided to be a well-known ancestor, he must do a full set of dramas, so that his apprentices and grandchildren know that "gentlemen" can't be done by outlets and overseas shopping alone......

Well, it's just an excuse he made for himself, he just likes to be handsome.

"Uncle, your guest is here."

Hearing Sister Lian's greeting, Yuan Yanqian put out the cigar in the ashtray, and when she turned around, she saw Miss Ethel Moreman, who was dressed very well at this time, walking in.

"Welcome, Miss Morman." Our Master Yuan's tone was a little cold, and he looked like he was doing business, and he was just like the playboy last night.

His style also made Miss Morman stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face narrowed a little and said, "Thank you, greasy...... Well, Mr. Yuan. ”

"Sister Lian, you go out first."

"Yes...... "Lady-overseer, glancing at the new female secretary, said, "Uncle." ”

Yuan Yanqian sighed in her heart, obviously she could raise the outer room with confidence, why did she always feel a little weak?

This habit is very bad, and it must be changed!

I should learn from Commander Warren Harding, and I steal from my mistress in the White House...... That meeting.

"Mr. Yuan, what should I do?" Miss Moman saw that Master Yuan had been silent, so she had to ask questions herself.

So what can this chick do?

In fact, with the master ball system, Yuan Yanqian doesn't need any stenographers at all. When he first got this broken system, his brain didn't turn around, and he "crackled" the adapted version of "socialism" by himself.

It's a shame that this broken system didn't even remind him, so he almost got tenosynovitis and tennis elbow. That's a 500-page masterpiece.

Yuan Yanqian looked at her for a moment, pointed to the seat next to the desk and said, "Miss Moman, your old profession - stenographer." ”

"Oh......" Miss Morman said, a look of disappointment on her face, "is that all?" ”

Seeing this, our Master Yuan sighed and said, "Miss Morman, I know that you are a girl with musical ideals. Don't worry, I'll give you a chance. But now......"

"Be your stenographer."

"Well, I understand." Miss Moman nodded, and sat down obediently at the desk, picking up the notebook and pencil on the table.

"Then let's get started." Yuan Yanqian re-lit her cigar and muttered, "The topic is, the New Economic Policy...... That colon, the victory of the market economy in Soviet Russia...... Add a 'temporary' before victory......"

This is not an article that he wrote on a whim, but a commissioned article from the American Economic Review (AER). Founded in 1911, this economics journal is the exclusive publication of the American Economic Association.

In fact, it wasn't until 1923 that the American Economic Association was officially established as a true nonprofit organization (NGO). Beginning in 1885, however, a group of American economists had a club of American economists under the organization of the aforementioned John Bates Clark.

They also publish their own publication, although AER is an informal publication. In 1963, the American Economic Review was renamed the Quarterly Economic Digest, and in 1969 it was redeveloped into the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), which became the official publication of the Society.

In March 1921 there was a major event that shook the world of economics when the Tenth Congress of the Bolshevik Party adopted a resolution on the transition from war communism to the New Economic Policy.

Why did the Red Polar Bear's New Economic Policy provoke such a big response from the economics community?

It's very simple, how long can this question be on the line to the red flag!

As we all know, Uncle Ma and Uncle En believe that private ownership is the source of the evil of capitalism and must be eliminated. Then, once private ownership disappears, in the future social commodity production should also be eliminated, and value relations will inevitably disappear.

Without value relations, commodity exchange cannot be completed spontaneously. But it doesn't matter, society can plan production and distribution very simply and directly. This is where the theory of planned economy comes from.

Under the domination of this conception of the economy of products, the idea that the proletariat can immediately and fully realize "one country = one factory" after taking power, and that the production and distribution of the whole society can be carried out according to a well-thought-out plan.

Uncle Ma was naturally a groundbreaking, forward-looking, and prescient genius of political scientists and economists, but after all, they were nineteenth-century figures, and none of them had seen a real socialist society with their own eyes.

Their assumptions about future societies are merely predictions, and they tend to be of a general inferential nature when examining the question of commodity-money relations.

Originally, Comrade Lenin of course agreed with this inference, but the four years of his rule from the October Revolution to 1921 made him realize that the problem of commodity-money relations was not so simple, and that the complete abolition of private property and the abolition of value relations did not seem to be achieved overnight, and the NEP was born.

In fact, the NEP implies that the planned economy has a certain inherent inadequacy.

There was considerable disagreement even within the Bolsheviks on this matter, but at the moment Comrade Lenin's prestige was too high to suppress it for the time being. After his death, the two factions ...... Well, there is another one more thing to be done in various hills within the CPSU.

To put it briefly, Comrade Iron and the centrist faction led by Bukharin fought against the Trotsky and Zinoeviv alliance (also known as the New Opposition). In the end, Comrade Iron and Steel took out Bukharin, the "big traitor" who adhered to the NEP.

After that, Comrade Iron embarked on a "great transformation" policy, which not only abolished the NEP, but also changed the political and ideological sphere. Soviet socialism irreversibly moved towards a comrade system of steel.

Outside of Soviet Russia, the left and right factions of the economic community were already arguing about the feasibility of a planned economy, and the emergence of the NEP was like adding a scoop of cold water to a boiling oil pot, bringing the debate to a climax.

And our Master Yuan threw out "Socialism" at this time, which immediately attracted the attention of the economics community. (Author's note: The historical facts are roughly like this, of course, slightly exaggerated.) ）

Of course, because there is no UPS and FedEx in these years, and there are no various "passes". So at present, only a part of American economists know his name and the book, and these economists are basically scholars from Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and George Washington University near New York. The books and letters to the people in Europe are still on their way.

"Mr. Yuan? Mr. Yuan! ”

Miss Morman, who had memorized the title, waited for a long time, but saw her boss standing in front of the window in a daze, motionless for more than ten minutes, and couldn't help but call.

"Huh?!" Only then did Yuan Yanqian come back to her senses from her contemplation, turned her head and said a little unhappily, "Miss Morman, please wait." I'm still thinking......"

He couldn't help but think about it.

Of course, he wasn't thinking about how to write the article. As a neoclassical liberal master, this is nothing to consider. Naturally, he wanted to gloat the Bolsheviks and Comrade Lenin, because they finally knew that the planned economy was a point of no return and had to introduce the market mechanism.

But! But!! But!!! As soon as this article was published, even if he officially offended the communist movement all over the world, it meant that he had officially embarked on the road of no return to the reactionary school lord, and he also officially declared that he would definitely not be able to be a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation.

"Socialism" can also be said to be an academic work, but "The New Economic Policy: The 'Temporary' Victory of the Market Economy in Soviet Russia" is a nominee.

Even if he has the opportunity to change from a rightist to a leftist in the future, this article, which will definitely be published under his real name, will be a big black spot for him.

You must know that he was not only the revolutionary mentor, the "number one thinker of the CPSU (Bukharin)", but even the iron man. Because the comrade system of iron cannot even tolerate the NEP, let alone neoliberalism and the market economy.

Heck, if these people are offended too hard, will Lao Tzu be used to open a scoop with an ice axe like the "revolutionary pickaxe that smashed the anti-revolution heads of the whole world"?

You can't help but think about it!

Thinking about this, Yuan Yanqian really wanted to cry without tears, and couldn't help but groan: "Gou ......"

"Pickup pickup."

"Master Ball, this poem is a quote and not a plagiarism! Do you need a pickup pickup? ”

"Host, this poem is a forbidden sentence, you can understand it."

Our Master Yuan sighed deeply, walked to the desk tiredly, sat down, and said to himself, "Miss Morman, you heard it......"

"The New Economic Policy: The 'Temporary' Victory of the Market Economy in Soviet Russia" is a signed article published in the American Economic Review in 1921 by Mr. Yuan Yanqi. At that time, the Western world's understanding of the new economic policy implemented by Soviet Russia was only half a claw. With his strong reasoning ability, profound economic skills, and his unique grand view of history, Mr. Yuan gained insight into the ins and outs of the new economic policy and the main methods of the Soviet Union. For the first time, the Western economic community saw Mr. Yuan's talent in economics.

The article caused an uproar as soon as it was published, and the title alone angered many leftist economists. Moreover, he had already published his doctoral dissertation "Socialism", which also made a lot of accusations against socialism, which also made him the common enemy of Eastern economists.

The most crucial point he pointed out in the article was that although the Soviet and Russian authorities realized that the planned economy had inherent defects, they had to introduce a market economy as a supplement. However, the internal structure of the Bolshevik Party, the future external international situation, and the historical factors of Russia's long-term centralized system determined that the NEP would inevitably fail and that Soviet Russia would inevitably move towards a stricter and stricter planned economic system with heavy industry as the core. This is not for the will of the CPSU leaders for the transfer.

Now, of course, those of us who come to know that he was right, that after Stalin came to power, he ended the NEP and began to implement the first five-year plan. He concentrated all his forces on the one-sided development of heavy industry, and secured the funds necessary for industrialization by means of high accumulation and deprivation of the peasants.

However, at that time, many people dismissed it as a strange theory, believing that he was grandstanding and deliberately smearing Soviet Russia and the CPSU.

But this article caught the attention of Lenin himself, who reportedly asked his comrades to read 'the Chinese's article' and warned that 'if the Chinese's prophecy came true, then one day the peasants would let us see the fucking ghosts.' ’。 (note 1)

Of course, we now know that Lenin was not right. Comrade Iron also has the practice of turning peasants into fucking ghosts before they let them see fucking ghosts......"

——Excerpt from F.A. Hayek's Commentary on Yuan Yanqi's Series of Essays

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Note 1: In a conversation between Lenin and Deputy People's Commissar of Finance Vladimirov at the end of November 1922, he said: "We now have two most important areas. The first is commerce, which is to learn to do business, in order to first integrate with the countryside and the peasants. If we don't, one day the peasants will let us go and see the fucking ghosts. "To find this site, please search for "6 Mao" or enter the URL:.