What social science is properly about is the human variety, which consists of all the social worlds in which men have lived, are living, and might live.
- C. Wright Mills
Welcome to my website! I am Kezhou Xiao (English Name: Spencer, Chinese Character: 肖可舟), currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). (My Google Profile)
My research interests focus on political economy, development and growth, and innovative entrepreneurship in a rapidly globalizing world. Specifically, my intellectual inquiry builds on the emerging Chinese Century via a "muddling through" strategy by the ongoing Chinese Socialist experiment. (Read: the greatest economist's Blueprint will reveal itself by the very evolutionary process recommended by himself.) To what extent such unorthodox policies and institutional designs, for the sake of promoting human development and prosperity, could furnish an alternative thinking to the liberal as well as illiberal practicalities, lies at the heart of my intellectual craftsmanship and research agenda, as Deng Xiaoping, the architect behind the Chinese growth model once famously proclaimed, "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth". (Original phrase in Characters: 实践是检验真理的唯一标准.) At the moment, my research project centers on creative destruction with Chinese characteristics, a political economy of finance study into the innovative foundations underpinning billionaire entrepreneurs from mainland China.
For a starter, Dambisa Moyo's Ted Global Talk, "Is China the new idol for emerging economies?" would be of interest to you as a source of the sociological imagination (Read: some beatings). It is my deep intellectual faith that unless we have a better understanding of the role of state along the development path as a process of rationalization and disenchantment, it is impossible to appreciate and protect our "freedom in a complex society" (Polanyi). Without individual autonomy, there is no reasoned moral choice. As a social scientist fight against "cultural hegemony" (Gramsci), I ought to locate myself and confront The Cheerful Robot.
Intellectually, the rise of China presents an inconvenient reality: the predominant school of thought in economics among leading departments have, paradoxically, abandoned the greatest economist and sociologist in the capitalistic era. Professionally, the politics of truth, unfortunately, clashes sharply with both the economics and sociology of truth. The confluence of these two factors, precipitously, result in an inevitable alienation and retrogression of a profession, whose professed goal is to uncover truth, by its own truth uncovering bureaucracy and hierarchy - a classic usurpation of ends by its means reminiscent of Michels' Iron Law.
The (intended) title of my thesis: Political Economy Essays in Honor of Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy, and the Human Element of Development in a Global Economy. (Read: I am not interested in jokes of questionable taste along my intellectual journey of becoming a better Marxist than Marx himself.)
My research interests focus on political economy, development and growth, and innovative entrepreneurship in a rapidly globalizing world. Specifically, my intellectual inquiry builds on the emerging Chinese Century via a "muddling through" strategy by the ongoing Chinese Socialist experiment. (Read: the greatest economist's Blueprint will reveal itself by the very evolutionary process recommended by himself.) To what extent such unorthodox policies and institutional designs, for the sake of promoting human development and prosperity, could furnish an alternative thinking to the liberal as well as illiberal practicalities, lies at the heart of my intellectual craftsmanship and research agenda, as Deng Xiaoping, the architect behind the Chinese growth model once famously proclaimed, "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth". (Original phrase in Characters: 实践是检验真理的唯一标准.) At the moment, my research project centers on creative destruction with Chinese characteristics, a political economy of finance study into the innovative foundations underpinning billionaire entrepreneurs from mainland China.
For a starter, Dambisa Moyo's Ted Global Talk, "Is China the new idol for emerging economies?" would be of interest to you as a source of the sociological imagination (Read: some beatings). It is my deep intellectual faith that unless we have a better understanding of the role of state along the development path as a process of rationalization and disenchantment, it is impossible to appreciate and protect our "freedom in a complex society" (Polanyi). Without individual autonomy, there is no reasoned moral choice. As a social scientist fight against "cultural hegemony" (Gramsci), I ought to locate myself and confront The Cheerful Robot.
Intellectually, the rise of China presents an inconvenient reality: the predominant school of thought in economics among leading departments have, paradoxically, abandoned the greatest economist and sociologist in the capitalistic era. Professionally, the politics of truth, unfortunately, clashes sharply with both the economics and sociology of truth. The confluence of these two factors, precipitously, result in an inevitable alienation and retrogression of a profession, whose professed goal is to uncover truth, by its own truth uncovering bureaucracy and hierarchy - a classic usurpation of ends by its means reminiscent of Michels' Iron Law.
The (intended) title of my thesis: Political Economy Essays in Honor of Joseph A. Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy, and the Human Element of Development in a Global Economy. (Read: I am not interested in jokes of questionable taste along my intellectual journey of becoming a better Marxist than Marx himself.)
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