Talk:Steven N. S. Cheung

message: If I had more time, I would start to do some translation work and add more of Porf. Cheung's economic theories and thinking. IMHO, much of his work about the Chinese economy has been extremely insightful. Unfortunately, since his target audiences have turned to Chinese students, general public, and policy makers in China, he has almost written exclusively in Chinese in the last 20 years. (note: I am no expert in translation. And will definitely suck in translating stuff about Economics.)
His latest work is a collection of three books (the fourth and latest one is more about his own educational experience, I think) in Chinese with some insightful rethinking in Economics analysis. The Nobel Prize winning economist Ronald Coase (a personal long time colleague and friend of Cheung) has asked Cheung to translate these works for him to read. Unfortunately, I haven't heard or read any recent news about these translation.
Now, can someone help expand this article and add more stuff about Prof. Cheung's thinking and theories about Economics please? At the moment, we have almost 50% of this entry discussing his legal troubles and then 50% about his life and economics in a very high level.  Just my 2 cents and I am often wrong. – Kempton    "Ideas are the currency of the future."  - a quote by Kevin Roberts 06:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Can someone help expand this article on Prof. Cheung ? 

message: Would someone please explain the following to me:
Unlike modern neo-classical economics, his analysis relies mostly on basic price theory, including individuals' maximization, law of demand and diminishing rate of marginal return. In particular, he put stress on the importance of transactions and institutional costs in his analysis.
When I read neo-classical, I think of an economic model which relies on individual optimization, non-strategic situations, and market clearing.  Such analysis usually holds diminishing MRS (a sufficient condition for utility maximization) and the Law of Demand. Transactions costs, when they can be adequately modeled, are included in the optimization. Does the above quote imply something else? Does his work deal instead with strategic interactions or market disequilibrium? Coleca 13:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I went to JSTOR to see if he had any articles published in English.  He has several articles in the Journal of Law and Economics, a couple in the Journal of Political Economy, and one in the Economic Journal.  They all appear to be new institutional stuff; transactions costs, property rights, and the optimal structure of firms and institutions.  It's right to say this is related to Coase's work.  I haven't had time to read them yet.  Also, I don't get any hits past 1983.  I'll have a look after the Core Exams. Coleca 00:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cheung's Economic Reasoning

message: I've talked and dreamt about updating Prof. Cheung's entry for quite a few months now. And I finally found some needed help to start this project.
For the next while, a volunteer team consisting of (in alphabetical order) Angela, Aries, Wallace, and myself (Kempton) are going to expand on and update this Wikipedia entry about Prof. Cheung. Our plan is to edit "often" to include our intermediate updates. We will try our best to provide references and notes as best as we can. But please note that some updates will be "work-in-progress" and as such will be a bit incomplete.
Thanks for your understanding during this renovation period.– Kempton    "Ideas are the currency of the future."  - a quote by Kevin Roberts 07:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Oct. 2007 expansion and update

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