Mega-Nations Dynamic Metropolises/大国大城

<p>A definitive treatise grounded in China-rooted empiricism:Where economic lens interrogates social challenges-debunking myths while building bridges of consensus.</p><p>基于本土实证，以经济视角谏言社会问题，著名经济学家的反成见、聚共识之作。</p><p></p><p>Professor Ming Lu's China as a Civilizational-State and Its Metropolises confronts the structural tensions in China's urban-rural development:</p><p>Skyrocketing housing costs suffocating smog paralyzing congestion; isolated elders left-behind children migrant workers' plights... With urbanization at its midway point metropolitan ailments and rural distress demand urgent reckoning.</p><p>Does restricting urban migration or returning laborers to villages resolve these crises? Emphatically not. The path forward lies not in nostalgic retreat but in reimagining urban destiny.</p><p>Through comparative global analysis grounded in China's empirical realities the author marshals evidence for metropolitan primacy. Social ills require channels-not barriers: Only by unleashing market mechanisms to allocate factors of production (labor included) can we untangle these Gordian knots.</p><p>Government's role is not to rival markets but to foresee infrastructure needs and deliver public goods where markets fall silent.</p><p>经济学家陆铭教授的《大国大城》关注的是中国当前城乡经济发展中切实存在的现实问题。房价陡升、雾霾遮天、交通拥堵；空巢老人、留守儿童、农民工的窘境......中国的城市化进程刚刚过半，但大城市的病状和乡村的隐痛已经成为人们关注的焦点。限制大城市人口流入，让农民工返乡，问题就能解决吗？不！去往城市，来谈乡愁。作者比较了全球经验，立足本土现状，基于实证，力倡中国发展大城市的重要性。社会问题宜疏不宜堵，只有让市场本身充分发挥对包括劳动力在内的生产要素的调节作用，才能从根本上解决当下棘手的社会问题。政府的功能不是与市场博弈，而是在市场失语的地方，以长远眼光，布局科学的基础设施、提供公共服务供给。《大国大城》将告诉你，只有在聚集中经济发展才能走向均衡，只有以追求人均GDP的均衡取代追求区域GDP的均衡，才能充分发挥出大国的国家竞争力，并提升全体人民的公共利益。</p>