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Research Area
  • Microeconomics
  • Political Economy

  • History of Ideas in Economics

 

Current Research

 

  • Knowledge, specialization and the market process

  • Network games

 
Courses Taught
  • ECMC200       Intermediate Microeconomics I

 
Selected Publications
Microeconomic Theory and Mathematical Economics

1.   

Sun, G-Z (2000), "The size of the firm and social division of labor", Australian Economic Papers, 39, 263-277.
 

2.   Sun, G-Z and Y-K Ng (2000), "The measurement of structural differences between economies: An axiomatic characterization", Economic Theory, 16, 331-332.
 

3.

Sun, G-Z (2002), "Pay more tribute to smart ants: a note on the Tullockian environmental coordination in non-human societies", Kyklos, 55, 369-374.
 

4.

Witt, U and G-Z Sun (2002), "Myopic behavior and cycles in aggregate output: a note on the role of correlated quantity adjustment", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 222(3), 366-376.
 

5.

Ng,Y-K and G-Z Sun (2003), “Exclusion of self evaluation in peer ratings: an impossibility theorem and some proposals", Social Choice and Welfare, 20, 443-456.
 

6.

Sun, G-Z, X Yang and L Zhou (2004), "General equilibrium in large economies with endogenous structure of the division of labor", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 55, 237-256.
 

7.

Sun, G-Z (2005), "Division of labor and transaction costs: toward a research agenda", Division of Labor and Transaction Costs, 1(1), 15-33.
 

8.

He, Y and G-Z Sun (2006), "Income dispersion and price discrimination", Pacific Economics Review, 11, 59-74.
 

9.

Sun, G-Z (2008), "An economics approach to some classical theorems in optimization theory", Optimization Letters, 2, 281-286.
 

10.

Sun, G-Z (2008), "The first two eigenvalues of random matrices and Brody’s hypothesis on stability of large input-output systems", Economic Systems Research: The Journal of the International Input-Output Association, 20, 429-432.
 

 
Public Choice and Political Economy
 

1.

Sun, G-Z and Y-K Ng (1999), "The effects of number and size of interest groups on social rent dissipation", Public Choice, 101, 251-265.
 

 

2.

Jakee, K and G-Z Sun (2005), "External habit formation and dependency in the welfare state", European Journal of Political Economy, 21, 83-98.
 

 

3.

Jakee, K and G-Z Sun (2006), "Is compulsory voting more democratic?", Public Choice, 129, 61-75.
 

 

4.

Sun, G-Z (2007), Review of Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China: 1948-1953 by Hua-Yu Li, Harvard Cold War Studies Book, Rowman & Littlefield, The China Journal, 58, 264-5.

 
History of Ideas
 

1.

Sun, G-Z (2000), “大師, 困惑者, 刺猬與狐狸”, <<讀書>>, 251, 48-51.
 

 

2.

Sun, G-Z (2005), Readings in the Economics of the Division of Labor: The Classical  Tradition, edited with an introductory chapter of the title "The economics of the division of labor from Xenophon to Hayek (1945): a review of selected literature", New Jersey and Singapore.
 

 

3.

Sun, G-Z (2008), "Nasir ad-Din Tusi on social cooperation and the division of labor", Journal  of Institutional Economics, 2008, 4(3), 403-413.
 

  4.

Sun, G-Z (forthcoming), The Division of Labor in Economics: A History. Routledge, London. 

   
  Development as Framed in the Economics of the Division of Labor
 

1.

Sun, G-Z and X Yang (2002), "Aggregation economies, the division of labor and urban land-rent escalation", Australian Economic Papers, 41, 164-184
 

 

2.

Sun, G-Z and M Lio (2003), "The division of labor and roundabout production: Allyn Young revisited", Pacific Economic Review, 8, 219-238.
 

 

3.

Ng, Y-K, H Shi and G-Z Sun (2003), Eds. The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions, Macmillan, London.
 

 

4.

Liu, D. P. T. and G-Z Sun (2005), "International demonstration effect and domestic division of labor", Pacific Economic Review, 10, 515-528.
 

 

5.

Narayan, P. and G-Z Sun (2007), "The extent of the market and economic growth: the case of  China during 1950- 2002", Review of Development Economics, 11, 645-664.

 
Contact Information

Department of Economics

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Macao SAR

China

 

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