Prof. Wei-Bin ZHANG
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
Title: Complexity Theory, the General Economic Theory, and Economic Evolution with Financial Markets
Abstract:
Biography:
Zhang Wei-Bin, born in 1961, PhD in economics (Umeå University, Sweden), is Professor in Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific
University (APU) since 2000. He was graduated in 1982 from Department of
Geography, Beijing University, and was selected by the Ministry of Education as
a candidate for study in foreign countries. He was sent to Japan by Chinese
government for graduate study in 1983. He
got Master Degree and completed Ph.D course at Department of Civil Engineering,
Kyoto University by 1987. During the Kyoto period, he learned economics in
leisure and published some articles on economics. He was invited to do research
on economics in Umeå University in October, 1987. He
completed his dissertation on economic growth theory in June, 1989 with well-known
Prof. Michio Morishima as the main examiner. Since then he researched at the
Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm for 10 years. He also worked
as visiting scholars in USA, Japan, Mainland China, Austria, Singapore, and
Hong Kong before coming to APU. His main research fields are complexity theory or
chaos theory in economics (nonlinear economic dynamics, synergetic economics), economic
theory, spatial (urban and regional) economics, monetary economics, ethics (with
regards to trust and justice), ancient Confucianism, American civilization,
Japan’s modern development, and economic development and modernization of Chinese
societies. He single-authorized 380 academic articles (180 in peer-review
international journals), 28 academic books in English by well-known international
academic publishing houses, and one book of poetry (in Chinese) by a well-known
publisher in the field. He is editorial board members of 12 peer-review international
journals.
Prof. Zhang isthe editorof Encyclopedia of Mathematical Models
in Economics(in two volumes) as a part of the
unprecedented global effort, The
Encyclopedias of Life Support Systems, organized bythe UNESCO. He is now frequently delivering keynote speeches in international
conferences on different topics related to his research on complexity theory
and the general economic theory.
He has published extensively in monetary economics.
His 2009 book “Monetary Growth Theory” by Routledge has been well received in academics. His
recent books on economics include: “The General
Economic Theory” in 2020 by Springer International
Publishing and “Chaos,
Complexity, and Nonlinear Economic Theory”, World Scientific (forthcoming)