1935 was born in hong kong. 1982 has been a professor at the university of hong kong and dean of the school of economics and finance. Adjunct Professor, School of Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. From 65438 to 0959, he studied in the Economics Department of UCLA, and then studied for a master's degree and a doctorate. Graduated from the Department of Economics, University of California, USA, with a doctorate. He was elected as the president of the American Western Economic Association, and was the first scholar outside the United States to get this position.
1969, his doctoral thesis "the theory of tenant farmers-taking agriculture in China and land reform in Taiwan Province province as an example" caused a sensation in western economics. 199 1 As the only economist who didn't win the Nobel Prize, he was invited to attend the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony.
Zhang Wuchang was born in Hongkong. He has taught at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Chicago. He has always been arrogant and unrestrained, boasting and exulting, and is known as "crazy life" in the economic circle.
Schooling career
In his early years, he studied under Achian, a master of modern new institutional economics; He worked with Coase and barzel, masters of modern property rights, for many years, and their thoughts influenced and inspired each other. Coase said that Zhang Wuchang is the one who knows the true meaning of his thoughts best. He has close contacts with most Nobel laureates in economics, and his homes in Zhang Wuchang and Hongkong often become the bridgehead for them to enter China. He accompanied Friedman to China many times to talk with national leaders about the importance of China's reform. He was also invited to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony and was regarded as a guest. 1997- 1998 was elected president of the American western economic association, which was the first time that he was awarded the honor of an economist outside the United States, and so on.
Among economists in the Chinese-speaking world, this kind of experience will probably be unprecedented and never come again.
Other hobbies
However, this is only one aspect of Zhang Wuchang. On the other hand, Zhang Wuchang is also the best economic essayist in the Chinese-speaking world, and his Selling Oranges is all the rage. He is a famous photographer and can compete with famous photographers such as Jane Qingfu in Hong Kong. He knows all about the art of calligraphy. When he talked about the calligraphy art of various schools in China, he was really excited.
The doctoral thesis was a blockbuster.
From 1959, Zhang Wuchang entered UCLA. At the beginning of 1966, Zhang Wuchang took the theory of tenant farmers: the application of agriculture in Asia and the land reform in Taiwan Province Province as the opening report of his doctoral thesis, and wrote an eleven-page outline, hoping to listen to the opinions of teachers. At that time, Almen Archin was Zhang Wuchang's mentor.
Zhang Wuchang's theory of tenant farmers later became the pioneering work of modern contract economics. Several of them have become classics of modern new institutional economics after being published in journals.
I deeply appreciate the friendship with Coase.
Johnson was the authority of tenant farmer theory at that time, and Zhang Wuchang began to criticize his analysis. Johnson not only didn't mind, but also repeatedly urged hershey to urge Zhang Wuchang to apply for the annual bonus from the University of Chicago. 1967 In the autumn, Zhang Wuchang worked in the University of Chicago. A few days after the start of school, he went to the University of Chicago Law School to visit Coase. Zhang Wuchang and Coase became good friends. In the 1980s, when Zhang Wuchang came to Hongkong, a professor passed by and told Zhang Wuchang a story:
Coase gave a speech at their university, and the audience was packed. Coase bluntly said in his speech that those who quoted his views were all wrong. When it comes to personal issues, an audience member asked, "Is it right for anyone to quote your ideas in today's world?" Coase replied, "Only Zhang Wuchang". No wonder Coase repeatedly mentioned Professor Zhang Wuchang's great contribution to the new institutional economics in his speech at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony in 199 1.
The most popular professor
"the worst teacher"
199 1 year, Zhang Wuchang was selected as the "worst teacher" in some "worst teaching awards" held by HKU. Zhang Wuchang was ranked last, and almost all of Hong Kong was boiling! Actually, it's quite natural. If we follow the traditional educational model and standards in the East, the teaching in Zhang Wuchang will definitely fail to meet the requirements.
Zhang Wuchang never prepares lessons, has no handouts or writes on the blackboard. In his view, there is no need to prepare lessons for the economics he thinks about every day. Even if he makes a formal speech, he won't have much preparation (for example, 199 1 giving a speech to many Nobel Prize winners in Sweden, 1998 giving a speech to the president of the Western Economic Association in the United States).
The first person to analyze China's economic system.
Zhang Wuchang was the first person who systematically applied the new system to analyze and study China's economic problems. Zhang Wuchang is famous for its new institutional economy.
Academic masters Coase, Achian and Demsetz have known North and barzel for many years, and a generation of new institutional economists are ready to go (Coase repeatedly mentioned Zhang Wuchang's contribution to new institutional economics in his Nobel Prize speech (Coase, 1994).
North also mentioned many times the influence of Zhang Wuchang on his economic thought. )。 Zhang Wuchang's greatest contribution to the new institutional economics should be to systematically introduce institutional analysis methods into the study of China's economic problems.
As early as the end of 1960s, Zhang Wuchang applied the analytical method of property right system to the land reform in Taiwan Province and founded the "New Tenancy Theory". Zhang Wuchang put forward his views on China's agricultural reform, urban enterprise reform, China's financial reform and China's corruption with pure institutional analysis.
It can be said that Zhang Wuchang devoted himself to the institutional analysis and policy suggestions of China's economic reform throughout the 1980s. His works written in Chinese in Hong Kong, such as Orangeman's Words, China's Future, China's Future Re-discussion, and China's Economic Revolution, were expensive and romantic for a time, and influenced a whole generation of reformers and young students in China.
1935—— Born on the second floor ofNo. 12, Taifu Street, Sai Wan River, Hong Kong.
1938- I go to kindergarten next door. My teacher is Miss Wu, and I am in the same school as her brother.
194 1 year-Japan/kloc-occupied Hong Kong in 0/February, then went to Macau, passing through Huizhou and Qujiang (now Shaoguan), and finally took refuge in Guilin and Liuzhou, Guangxi.
1945—— After returning to Hong Kong, he studied at Huaying Middle School in Foshan, Guangdong Province, failed the exam, was demoted after further study, and was finally expelled.
1948- studied at Wan Chai College, Hong Kong.
1952- studied at Ren Huang college, but failed in the first year. After rereading for a year, I was one point short of passing the Chinese and was expelled from school.
1954- My father worked in Hong Kong and studied photography.
1954- I went to study in Toronto, Canada, but failed. I worked as a photographer.
1959- studied business at UCLA, then transferred to economics.
196 1 year-studying for a master's degree, with the tutor he Chourafa.
1963- studied for a doctorate, but failed the oral examination for doctoral qualification. The tutor He Shulafa, founder of modern industrial economics, Ai Zhiren.
1967- completed his doctoral thesis "The Theory of Tenant Farmers" at Chang Di University, and did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago in the same year.
1969—— Transferred to Washington University in Seattle and was hired as a professor.
1982- Department of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong.
2000-retired. And began to write & gt.
2002-Visited universities for many times to give lectures, and set off "Zhang Wuchang fever" in Chinese mainland.
2003-Wanted by the US government for alleged tax evasion, entrusted a lawyer to sue the US government.
2008-Ronald? Ronald H. Coase (19 10-) wrote a short book < < China's economic system >:< won great praise.