The School of Economics at Renmin University of China held the 2nd China Youth Forum on Marxist Political Economy in December 2017. Four students from the Institute of Economics won awards at the Forum. Sun Xiaoyu, a 4th year bachelor-straight-to-doctorate student, won first prize with the paper titled “Building the Quantitative Analysis Framework for the Labor Value Theory”; Liu Chong, a 3rd year undergraduate student, won the second prize with the paper titled “Fixed Capital, Income Distribution and the Micro Efficiency of Chinese Economy: An Empirical Study”; Gao Chenxi, an undergraduate student who graduated from the Institute in 2016 and now studies political economics with Prof. Watanabe Masao at Hitotsubashi University, won third prize with the paper titled “Service Industry under Capitalism: Physical and Labor Leading.” Finally, Cui Zhen, an undergraduate student graduating from the Institute in 2017 and now attending graduate school at ETH Zurich, won the finalist prize with the paper titled “Tensor Analysis of Price Theory.”
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The 1st China Youth Forum on Marxist Political Economy took place in Beijing in December 2016. At the event, Sun Xiaoyu, then a 3rd year bachelor-straight-to-doctorate student of the Institute won the second prize (the first prize remained vacant) with the paper titled “Comparison of Two Agricultural Labor Transfer Theories Between Lewis and Brenner – Cum Review of Dispute over Chinese Economic Transformation”; Yang Qingmei, a 2nd year graduate student, won the third prize with the paper, titled “Profit Margin Downtrend Rule Theory and Dispute: A Critical Overview”; and Gao Chenxi, an undergraduate student who graduated from the Institute in 2016 and now learns political economics from Prof. Watanabe Masao at Hitotsubashi University, also won the third prize with the paper titled “Capital Domination of Consumption Process: Consumption Capital Theory.”
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