经济学.英文版·第18版/中国教育部推荐原版引进教材

Definitions of scarcity and efficiency quoted, as two fundamental assumptions.In particular, efficiency is defined in margins, I.e. In terms of better and worth offs in everyone's 'economic goods', and suggests a rather 'collective' perspective of bearing the 'goods' of other people in mind, although certainly in marginal terms only and nothing of collectivism is involved.In the book Adam Smith is identified as founder of modern microeconomics, and Keynes of macroeconomics. This is surprisingly frank, to admit dependence of mind of a researcher, and how much this stated commitment in a top-selling textbook has contributed to the eminence of Keynesian economics must be at least worth noticing.

Statistics and the scientific method. As oppsing the mathematical inductive reasoning based on certain normative axioms like that of the existence of oneself, which most philosophers adopted until rise of science.

Discrepancies between individual and aggregate behavior are contended to have been the results of interacting individuals. Why exactly does the system and it's components behave in different ways? Because some the system's properties are not determined by it's components, but by the internal forces, which is equally part of the system?

Fundamental economic problems, how did the governors and people in the most prosperous ages of China dealt with them? Do they deal with the problems by themselves or are they actually just participants of historical processes? How did the Chinese understand and solve their identified economics issues?