Chapter 1436: A Case Study
2020 was destined to be the most unusual year of this century.
The UA election was in the last three days countdown, the SS Origin reached the edge of the solar system and traveled along the Kuiper Belt for half a month now. The ray of the new century was already rising. When everyone eagerly looked forward to the dawn and imagined a better life in the next era, the contradictions and backwardness that accumulated in the old era were also about to erupt.
The whole world was waiting for the UA to make a choice. The election, from the start, had occupied the top spot of every search engine.
In a world-renowned institution of higher learning at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Frank Dobbin sat in the corner of the library as he read through the Wall Street Journal with his brows furrowed.
As a professor of the Division of Social Sciences at Harvard, as a leader in the contemporary “Law and Economics Theory,” many of his socioeconomic works received high praise internationally. Unlike most sociology professors that focused on theories, his research was closer to reality and emphasized practical application.
It was precisely because of this that his class was not only very popular with students at Harvard, but also very popular with large and medium-sized enterprises. His lesson plans were not only repeatedly studied by social science students, but also viewed as references by management around the world.
To be precise, Frank Dobbin was closely examining the article on Celestial Trade.
Recently, the media had been filled with the topic of SS Origin. Whether it was a serious scientific journal or a seemingly unrelated financial weekly, the latest articles were more or less connected to SS Origin, Celestial Trade, and Xin.
The reason why he was so intrigued by this article was mainly because of his new book. The book combined current social forms, analyzed the problems and relationships between society and economy. At the same time, the book predicted the future social and economic development to a certain extent.
And Xin and Celestial Trade was a very classic case discussed in his new upcoming book.
From Celestial Trade, he saw the final form of two different economic theories, capitalism that dominated the Western world and the state capitalism advocated by Lenin. It was a malformed enterprise that was not subject to the constraints of the antitrust law, it would eventually forcefully merge all the industries that could produce surplus-value, and finally “acquire” the government to be part of the enterprise.
Prediction was something that academia from all over the world enjoyed.
As a tidbit of a great masterpiece, a moderate prediction would not only heighten the work but would also guide the future to some extent. Even if the prediction was wrong, it would be okay. After all, the limitations of the thinking and vision of the “people in the past” were understandable to those who study history in the future.
And if he guessed correctly, it would be remarkable.
Not only would his work be heightened infinitely, but even the author would be regarded as a true genius…
Of course, Frank Dobbin did not consider such far-flung things when he wrote the book. At this moment, he contemplated on the insights that Western socioeconomics could learn from the rise of Celestial Trade, and about the prospects of the Celestial Trade model.
“Still working on that subject?”
Christopher Grandi brought coffee and sat across from him. As a scholar in the same field, his research was similar to that of Professor Frank Dobbin, and the two often discussed certain topics together. For the unpublished piece of work, Professor Grandi had the honor to read the manuscript, some of which he agreed with.
Except for one point, the part about Xin.
“The model of Xin is worth learning from. It is not necessarily applicable to the UA, but it is applicable to the future. This model appeared briefly in the colonies of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and other countries before the eighteenth century, and it was ultimately due to its own reasons that it was eliminated by history. This system with many problems in itself will be restored in the twenty-first century. The underlying reasons should be something we should study…”
While Frank Dobbin spoke, he began to write this sentence in a notebook. However, for some reason, when he was halfway through the sentence, the pen in his hand stopped. He shook his head and scratched out this sentence.
“There are many coincidences in the rise of Xin. If you want to summarize the advantages and disadvantages of a certain social policy by studying the history of the development of Celestial Trade, the final result will definitely disappoint you,” Professor Grandi said after he took a drink from the coffee, “Because the advantages of Celestial Trade do not come from their system at all, but from their leadership in science and technology.”
“Then my dear friend, what is the reason Celestial Trade can achieve leadership in science and technology?” Professor Dobbin smiled and asked in a nonchalant tone.
“Maybe it’s just luck.” Professor Grandi shrugged.
“Luck?” Frank Dobbin shook his head while he laughed, then closed his notebook, “I plan to go to Xin myself. You and I may never understand the answer to this question by just sitting here in the library.”
“It’s the same even if you go,” Christopher Grandi said, “I went to Coro University with Harvard last year for academic exchange. I also visited the Chancellor of Coro University and discussed this issue with him.
“The final conclusion?” Frank Dobbin raised his eyebrows.
“There is no conclusion. We can’t find any case in history that can define the rise of Celestial Trade.” Professor Grandi shook his head.
“That’s because you discussed this with the wrong person. If it were me, I would visit Jiang Chen directly.”
When Professor Grandi realized that his friend was not willing to change his mind at all, he let out a sigh.
“The Chancellor of Coro University is Rafael Leif. When I was doing academic exchanges at MIT, I had a good relationship with him. I’ll write a letter of introduction for you. If you want to meet Jiang Chen, you can ask him for help.”
“Thanks a lot,” Frank Dobbin said gratefully.
“You’re welcome.”
On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Jiang Chen would never have thought of how much shock Future Heavy Industries’ Origin would bring to the world on the other side of the ocean. This kind of shock was not only limited to conversations between ordinary people, department of social science in different universities and colleges started to use Celestial Trade as a case study. Even the aerospace companies in Silicon Valley, B City, and Florida had viewed Celestial Trade and Future Heavy Industries as goals to target…
At this moment, it was still very early in the morning.
Jiang Chen, who sat at the dining table, also saw the report published in the Wall Street Journal…