Wang Ning

HONORS

VisitingResearchFellow,InstituteofDevelopingEconomies(Japan),June-October2015Franco Forlin Lecturer, Istituto Bruno Leoni (Italy), September 2014
2014 Atlas Economic Research Foundation, "Liberating Asian Enterprises" Scholarship
2013 China's Best Books Award, by CCTV and Chinese Book Review Society
2013 Antony Fisher International Memorial Award Atlas Economic Research Foundation
2012 Arthur Seldon Award for Excellence by Institute of Economic Affairs, London
2012 University of Chicago Law School Summer Fellow in Law and Economics
2008 Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellowship
2006 Summer Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, USA
1997-98ChaiWan-linFellowship

Contact Information

Email: nwang1952@gmail.com

Education Background

Highest Degree & Major
Post - Doctoral Fellow University of Chicago Law School, 2002-2005
Ph.D. Human Development, University of Chicago, 1993-2002

PROFESSIONAL

Editor-in-Chief, Man and the Economy, since 2014Senior Fellow, Ronald Coase Institute, since 2013
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong (2017-2020)Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago Law School (2013-2015)
Director, Coase Center for the Study of the Economy, Zhejiang University (2013-2016)Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Arizona State University (2005-2013)Instructor, Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago College (2003-2004)

RESEARCH

Books

● Coase on Law and Economics, edited and with an introduction by Ning Wang,Peking University Press, April 2024 (in English and Chinese)
● Coase, Ronald and Wang, Ning. How China Became Capitalist. Palgrave, 2012.The Chinese edition is titled，2013. Also available in Japanese, German, Italian, Turkish, Persian (Farsi),Russian, and Vietnamese.
● Wang, Ning. Making a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of aFreshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community. Routledge, 2005. [Paperbackavailable since 2012].
● Chen, Weiqi, Dai, Jianling, and Wang, Ning. Cultural Psychology: Culture andMind. Zhongshan University Press, 1993 (in Chinese).

Peer-ReviewedJournalArticles

● Wang, Ning. 2017. "Chinese Universities and the Market for Ideas." Man and theEconomy, December 4(2).
● Wang, Ning. "The Market for Ideas and Its Determining Role in China's Future."Cato Journal, March 2017, 37(1): 149-65.
● Wang, Ning. "Steven Cheung and Coasian Economics: A Personal Reflection."Man and the Economy, June 2016 3(1): 57-64.
● Wang, Ning. "The Chinese Economic System under Mao". Man and theEconomy, December 2015 2(2): 153-93.
● Wang, Ning. "Is the State Leader or Follower in China's Market Transformation?"Economic Affairs, October 2015 35(3), 479-88.
● Geoffrey Hodgson, Claude Menard, Mary Shirley and Ning Wang. "Introductionto the Ronald H. Coase memorial issue", Journal of Institutional Economics, June2015 11(2): 213-19.
● Mary Shirley, Ning Wang and Claude Menard. "Ronald Coase's Impact onEconomics." Journal of Institutional Economics, June 2015 11(2): 227-44.
● Wang, Ning. "Coase and China." Man and the Economy, December 2014 1(2):271 -281
● Wang, Ning. "Ronald H. Coase, December 29, 1910- September 2, 2013" Manand the Economy, June 2014 1(1), pp. 125-140.
● Wang, Ning and Ronald Coase. "A Life in Pursuit of Good Economics." Man andthe Economy, June 2014 (1): pp. 99-120.
● Wang, Ning. 2013. "The Successes and Failures of Professor Coase," Journal ofNatural Resources Policy Research, 5(4), pp. 267-71.
● Terjesen, Siri and Wang, Ning. 2013. "Coase on Entrepreneurship," SmallBusiness Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal 40(2), pp. 173-84.
● Coase, Ronald and Wang, Ning "Saving Economics from the Economists,"Harvard Business Review (December 2012), p. 36.
● Coase, Ronald and Wang, Ning. 2011. "The Industrial Structure of Production: AResearch Agenda for Innovation in an Entrepreneurial Economy," EntrepreneurResearch Journal 1(2): 1-13.
● Jacobson, David and Wang, Ning. 2008. "What if the Model Does not Tell theWhole Story? The Clock, the Natural Forest and the New Global Studies." NewGlobal Studies 2(3), Article 2.
● Wang, Ning. 2007. "Measuring Transaction Costs: Diverging Approaches,Conflicting Practices." Division of Labour & Transaction Costs 2(2), pp. 111-46.
● Jacobson, David and Wang, Ning. 2007. "The Intellectual Foundations of GlobalStudies." Global-E: A Journal of Global Studies 1(1): 15 (May).
● Wang, Ning. 2003. "Coase on the Nature of Economics." Cambridge Journal ofEconomics 27(6), pp. 807-29.
● Wang, Ning. 2001. "The Co-Evolution of Institutions, Organizations, andIdeology: The Longlake Experience of Property Rights Transformation." Politicsand Society 29 (3), pp. 415-45.
● Wang, Ning. 1999. "Transaction Costs and the Structure of the Market: A CaseStudy." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58 (4), pp. 783-805.

BookChapters

● Wang, Ning, 2024. "Law in the Economy – the Coasian Law and Economics", inCoase on Law and Economics, edited by Ning Wang, Beijing: Peking UniversityPress.
● Wang, Ning. 2018. "The Rule of Law, Market Order and China's Party-StateSystem", in New Humanism and Global Governance, edited by Lijun Yang andWei Shan, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.
● Wang, Ning. 2016. "Emerging Markets: What Can We Learn from RonaldCoase", in Ronald H. Coase, edited by Claude Menard and Elodie Bertrand,Edward Edgar Publishing, pp. 276-87.
● Wang, Ning. 2016. "The Successes and Failures of Professor Coase," in ClassicalPapers in Natural Resource Economics Revisited, edited by ChennatGopalakrishnan, New York: Routledge, pp. 119-24.