{{Short description|Chinese economist}} {{family name hatnote|[[Zhang (surname)|Zhang]] ({{lang|zh|张}})|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox person | image = Zhang Weiying Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2011.jpg | caption = Zhang Weiying at the [[World Economic Forum|Annual Meeting of the New Champions]] 2011 | name = Zhang Weiying | native_name = 张维迎 | native_name_lang = zh | birth_name = | other_names = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|10|01|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Wubu County]], [[Shaanxi]], China | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | alma_mater = [[Northwest University (China)|Northwest University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Philosophy|MPhil]])<br />[[University of Oxford]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|DPhil]]) | occupation = Economist, professor, writer | years_active = 1994–present | organization = | known_for = Advocacy of free markets | notable_works = ''Price, the Market and the Entrepreneurs'', ''30 Years of China's Reform'' | party = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | module = }} {{Contemporary Chinese political thought|liberalism}}'''Zhang Weiying''' ({{zh|c=张维迎|p=Zhāng Wéiyíng}}; born October 1, 1959) is a Chinese economist and was head of the [[Guanghua School of Management]], [[Peking University]]. He is known for his advocacy of free markets and his ideas have been influenced by the [[Austrian School]].<ref>Weiying, Zhang, "Completely bury Keynesianism", http://finance.sina.com.cn/20090217/10345864499_3.shtml (February 17, 2009)</ref>
==Biography== Zhang Weiying was born into a peasant family.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Weber |first=Isabella |author-link=Isabella Weber |url= |title=How China Escaped Shock Therapy: the Market Reform Debate |date=2021 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-429-49012-5 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |pages=289 |oclc=1228187814}}</ref> He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1982, and a master's degree in 1984, from [[Northwest University (China)]]. He received his [[M. Phil.]] in economics in 1992 and [[D. Phil.]] in economics from [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]. His D. Phil. supervisors were [[James Mirrlees]] (1996 [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel Laureate]]) and Donald Hay. Between 1984 and 1990, he was a research fellow of the Economic System Reform Institute of China under the State Commission of Restructuring Economic System. During this period, he was heavily involved in economic reform policy-making in China. He was the first Chinese economist who proposed the [[dual-track price system]] (in 1984) and emerged as a strong voice in arguing for it as a mechanism of reform during the [[Moganshan Conference]].<ref name=":0" /> Zhang was also known for his contributions to [[macro-control]] policy debating, ownership reform debating, and entrepreneurship studies. After he graduated from Oxford, he co-founded [[China Center for Economic Research]] (CCER), [[Peking University]] in 1994, and worked with the Center first as an [[Professor|associate professor]] and then as a professor until August 1997. He then moved to Peking University's Guanghua School of Management in September 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://emc.pku.edu.cn/en/faculty_detail.asp?tid%3D15 |title=页面没有找到 |access-date=June 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707030730/http://emc.pku.edu.cn/en/faculty_detail.asp?tid=15 |archive-date=July 7, 2011 }}</ref> He was removed as Dean from the Guanghua School of Management in 2010; the removal was attributed to his radical views, which distracted him from the responsibilities of being a dean, according to one teacher at the school.<ref>''Economic Observer'', "Zhang Weiyang Removed as Dean of Guanghua School of Management", http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens/homepage/briefs/2010/12/14/188926.shtml (December 14, 2010)</ref>
Zhang Weiying is the Sinar Mas Chair Professor of Economics at Peking University's National School of Development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.nsd.edu.cn/article.asp?articleid%3D7400 |title=Weiying Zhang/Faculty Directory - National School of Development |access-date=March 7, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152228/http://en.nsd.edu.cn/article.asp?articleid=7400 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 }}</ref>
== Works == * ''Contractors: Contract Theory'', 1995 * ''Game Theory and Information Economics'', 1996 * ''The Theory of the Firm and the Reform of Chinese Enterprises'', 1999 * ''Property Rights, Government and Reputation'', 2001 * ''Information, Trust, and the Law'', 2003 * ''Property Rights, Corporate Governance and Incentives'', 2005 * ''Competitiveness and Growth'', 2006 * ''Price, the Market, and the Entrepreneurs'', 2006 * ''30 Years of China's Reform'', 2008 * ''The Logic of the Market'', 2010 * ''Changing China: The Way Forward to Reform China'', 2012
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