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Foreword by Ronald H. Coase

原序：求学奇遇记（Author's Preface: An Intellectual Odyssey）

I. Three Lectures

 1. Economic Explanation: Let Us Ride with the Surging Tide

 2. Deng Xiaoping's Great Transformation

 3. The Transaction Costs Paradigm

II. Contract Theory: form Sharecropping to the Firm

 4. Private Property Rights and Sharecropping

 5. Transaction Costs, Risk Aversion, and the Choice of Contractual Arrangements

 6. The Structure of a Contract and the Theory of a Non-Exclusive Resource

 7. The Contractual Nature of the Firm

 8. Economic Organization and Transaction Costs

 9. On the New Institutional Economics

III. Social Cost Theory

 10. Coase, Ronald Harry

 11. The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation

 12. The Theory of Inter-Individual Effects and the Demand for Contracts

 13. The Myth of Social Cost

IV. Intricate Pricing Arrangements

 14. The Enforcement of Property Rights in Children, and the Marriage Contract

 15. Rose Bowl vs. Hong Kong: The Economics of Seat Pricing

 16. Commodity Futures: On the Distinction between Commodity Exchange and Crude Oil Exchange

V. Price and Rent Control

 17. A Theory of Price control

 18. Roofs or Stars: The Stated Intents and Actual Effects of a Rents Ordiance

 19. Rent Control and Housing Reconstruction: The Postwar Experience of Prewar Premises in Hong Kong

VI. Intellectual Property Rights

 20. Property Rights and Invention

VII. China's Economic Reforms

 21. Irving Fisher and the Red Guards

 22. Will China go Capitalist?

 23. China in Transition: Where Is She Heading Now?

 24. Privatization vs. Special Interest: The Experience of China's Economic Reforms

 25. Economic Interactions: China vis-a-vis Hong Kong

VIII. Political Economics

 26. Why Is There a Lack of Freedom Under Communism?

 27. A Simplistic General Equilibrium Theory of Corruption

 28. The Curse of Democracy as an Instrument of Reform in Collapsed Communist Economies

 29. Common Property Rights

IX. Newspaper Commentaries

 30. China's Ten Black Marks

 31. From China Maids to Rents-a-Slave

 32. Learn From China's Experience

 33. On the Wrong Wave Length

Index