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国际经济与贸易系Seminar
发布时间：2011-06-23
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主题: Rent-Seeking Theory & China Model
时间：2011年6月27日16.00-17.30
地点：北京师范大学后主楼1610
主持人：北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院院长赖德胜教授
演讲人：美国克莱姆森大学中国研究中心主任胡晓波教授
演讲人简介：
Xiaobo Hu is Professor and Director of Clemson University Center for China Studies. His teaching and research interests include privatization and property rights, economic reform policies, institutional economics, China’s emerging middle class, the U.S.-China relations, and China’s rise and its global impact.
Dr. Hu has been National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and Senior Research Fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (China) and University of Wollongong (Australia) respectively. He also served as President of the Association of Chinese Political Studies, and Co-Editor of Journal of Chinese Political Science.
Dr. Hu’s publications include Problems in China’s Transitional Economy, Transition towards Post-Deng China, China after Jiang, and Interpreting U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations, in addition to two dozens of journal articles and book chapters. He has also contributed to Encyclopedia Britannica articles on China on an annual basis, as well as regularly to Greenville Business Magazine as a columnist.
As Director of the Center for China Studies, Dr. Hu has developed various scholarship and training programs, the Speaker Series, as well as collaborations with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) and U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC).
Xiaobo Hu received his Ph.D. from Duke University. He is a member of Board of Directors respectively of the Presbyterian College Confucius Institute, Greenville Sister Cities International, and Greenville Chinese Cultural Association. He once served as an overseas delegate to the 10th Conference of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
讲座摘要：
Rent seeking is where we can learn the most regarding who gets what and how. Governments create rents as an incentive to reshape the authoritative allocation of social valuables. In the recent privatization reform in China, rent was created to shape the direction of property rights transformation. This involves privatization of state-owned enterprises and township-village enterprises in both urban and rural regions.
The presentation tries to clear up the difference between rent and surplus, therefore rent seeking versus surplus seeking, and then demonstrate that, during China’s transition to the market-oriented economy, both surplus and rent have been created and sought. By doing so, it will also provide a critique of Western theory of rent seeking and its application in China studies.
It is very important to differentiate surplus from rent, therefore surplus seeking from rent seeking, because each involves different mechanisms and behavioral patterns. It is also important to differentiate rent seeking from corruption, with the former as the legitimate. Finally, it is important to understand that whenever and wherever there is government regulation, there will be rent and/or surplus created and there will be players seeking the rent and surplus, whether legally or extralegally.