Capital and Knowledge - Zhang, Wei-Bin

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Biographie:
Zhang Wei-Bin, Ph.D. (Ume?, Sweden), is Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University since 2000. He graduated in 1982 from the Department of Geography, Beijing University. He obtained his master's degree and completed his Ph.D. course at the Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University by September 1987. He completed his dissertation on economic growth theory in Sweden, by April 1989. Since then, he had been a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm for 10 years. His main research fields are complexity theory in economics (nonlinear economic dynamics, chaos theory, synergetic economics) and sociology, ethics (especially trust and justice), ancient Chinese thought, theory of leadership (focused on Han Feizi and Confucius), American civilization, and the economic development and modernization of Chinese societies (mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), and Japan. He is the sole author of 410 academic articles (200 in international peer-reviewed journals) and 32 academic books in English by well-known international academic publishing houses available on Amazon'. He published two books of poetry (in Chinese) by a well-known publisher in the field. He is an editorial board member of 12 peer-review international journals. He was ranked 4 Top in World among 69211 registered authors in economics in NJP by Sep 2024 (the address below). Prof. Zhang is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Models in Economics (in two volumes) which is a part of the unprecedented global effort, The Encyclopedias of Life Support Systems, organized by UNESCO....

Sommaire:
Introduction: Classical Economics.- General Equilibrium Theory.- Neoclassical Growth Theory.- Disequilibrium Economics.- Economic Structure.- Economics with Returns to Scale.- Modern Vision of Economic Processes by Complex Theory.- Structure of the Study.- One-Sector Growth Models under Constant Returns to Scale: The One-Sector Growth Model.- Growth with Home Capital.- Time Distribution in the One-Sector Growth Model.- Conclusions.- Appendix.- Production Functions in Growth Theory.- Preference and Utility Functions.- The Solow-Swan Model.- The Ramsey Growth Model.- One-Sector Economies under Non-Constant Returns to Scale: The Growth Model with Public Goods.- Knowledge, Population, Environment and Economic Growth.- An Economic Dynamics with Livestock.- Economic Development with Human Capital and Opening.- On Returns to Scale.- Appendix.- Economic Growth with Money.- Economic Chaos with Endogenous Population.- Knowledge, Growth and Economic Structures: An Agricultural Economy with Land Ownership Distribution.- A Two-Sector Recardian Economy.- The Ricardian System with Knowledge and Infrastructures.- A Structural Dynamics of Agriculture, Industry and Service.- Economic Structure with Multiple Capital Goods.- On Economic Structures.- Appendix.- The Neoclassical Two-Sector Growth Model.- The Neoclassical Multiple Sector Models.- Proving Proposition 4.2.1.- Proving Proposition 4.4.1.- Proving Proposition 4.5.1.- Knowledge, Growth and Wealth Distribution: Income Distribution with Human Capital, Diligence and Frugality.- Growth with Government`s Redistribution Policy.- Economic Structure with Multiple Groups and Job Amenities.- A Two-Group Growth Model with Capital and Knowledge.- On Economic Evolution with Multiple Groups.- Appendix.- Distribution of Income and Wealth in Sato`s Model.- Proving Propositions 5.1.1 and 5.1.2.- Proving Proposition 5.3.1.- Proving Proposition 5.4.1.- Education, Research and Growth: Education and Saving in the Growth Model.- The Research Model with Job Amenities.- The Two-Group Model with Research and Job Amenities.- Growth with Capital, Human Capital and Knowledge.- Appendix.- Proving Proposition 6.1.1.- Unemployment in Disequilibrium Dynamics: Growth and Unemployment in a Two-Group-Economy.- Unemployment with Endogenous Knowledge.- Unemployment in a 'Welfare Economy'.- Conclusions.- Appendix.- Proving Lemmas 7.1.3 and 7.1.4 and Examining the Case of Different Preferences.- Proving Proposition 7.2.1.- Economic Development with Sexual Division of Labor: Sexual Division of Labor with Home Capital and Time Distribution.- The Impact of Female Labor Participation on Knowledge Economies.- Sexual Division of Labor with Capital and Knowledge.- Economic Growth with Sexual Discrimination.- On Complex of Sexual Division of Labor and Consumption.- Appendix.- Proving Lemmas 8.1.3 and 8.1.4.- Proving Lemma 8.2.1.- Proving Propositions 8.3.1 and 8.3.2.- Preference Change with Capital and Knowledge: Preference Change in the One-Sector Growth Model.- Dynamics of Knowledge, Capital and Preference.- Dynamic Economic Structure with Preference Change.- Growth and Preference Change with Sexual Division of Labor.- Concluding Remarks.- Summary.