Prof. Wei-Bin Zhang 
	College of International Management
 
	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan 
	
	Email: wbz1@apu.ac.jp
	 
	
 
	Qualifications 
	1998 Ph.D., Economics, University of Umeå, Sweden 
	1986 M.Sc., Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan 
	1982 B. A., Economic Geography, Peking University, China 
	 
 
	
 
	Publications
(Selected)  
 
	Books 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) The General Economic
Theory: An Integrative Approach. Switzerland: Springer International
Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56204-5. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2011) The Rise and Fall of
China’s Last Dynasty: The Deepening of the Chinese Servility. New York: Nova
Science. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2010) Fukuzawa Yukichi:
The Pioneer of East Asia’s Westernization with Ancient Confucianism. Frederick,
MD.: PublishAmerica. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2009) Monetary Growth
Theory: Money, Interest, Prices, Capital, Knowledge, and Economic Structure
over Time and Space. London: Routledge. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. 张卫彬 (2009) 别府清音. 沈阳市: 辽宁出版社. (A
book of poems in Chinese, Lucid Voice from Beppu, Shenyang: Liaoning Province
Publisher. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2008) International Trade
Theory: Capital, Knowledge, Economic Structure, Money and Prices over Time and
Space. Berlin: Springer. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2007) New China’s Long
March from Servility to Freedom. New York: Nova Science. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2006) Growth with Income
and Wealth Distribution. London: Macmillan. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2006) Discrete Dynamical
Systems, Bifurcations and Chaos in Economics, in “Mathematics in Science and
Engineering”, vol. 204. Elsevier: Amsterdam. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B (2006) Hong Kong - The Pearl
Made of the British Mastery and the Chinese Docile-Diligence. New York: Nova
Science. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2005) Differential
Equations, Bifurcations, and Chaos in Economics, in “Series on Advances in
Mathematics for Applied Sciences”, vol. 68. Singapore: World Scientific. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2005) Economic Growth
Theory. Hampshire: Ashgate. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2003) A Theory of Interregional
Dynamics - Spatial Models with Capital, Knowledge, and Structures. Berlin:
Springer. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2003) The American
Civilization Portrayed by Ancient Confucianism. New York: Algora
Publisher.Zhang, W.B. (2003) Taiwan’s Modernization. Singapore: World
Scientific. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2002) Singapore’s
Modernization - Westernization and Modernizing Confucian Manifestations. New
York: Nova Science. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2002) An Economic Theory
of Cities - Spatial Models with Capital, Knowledge, and Structures. Berlin:
Springer. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B (2000) Adam Smith and
Confucius - The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Analects. New York: Nova
Science. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2000) A Theory of
International Trade - Capital, Knowledge and Economic Structures. Berlin:
Springer. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (1999) Confucianism and
Industrialization. London: Macmillan. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (1999) Capital and
Knowledge - Dynamics of Economic Structures with Non-constant Returns.
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (1998) Japan versus China
in the Industrial Race. London: Macmillan. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (1996) Knowledge and Value
- Economic Structures with Time and Space. Umeå Economic Studies, Umeå: Umeå
University. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (1991) Synergetic
Economics. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (translated into Japanese by Toichiro Asada,
Yuri Aruka, Toshio Inaba, and Wako Hirosi, Tyoko: the Chuo University Press,
1994; into Russian by N.V. Ostrovskaya, Moscow: Mir Publishers). 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (1990) Economic Dynamics -
Growth and Development. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. 
	
 
	Journals 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Economic Growth and
Wealth Accumulation with Perfect and Monopolistic Competition. The USV Annals
of Economics and Public Administration 20(1), 7-25. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Corruption and
Public Service in an Extended Solowian Growth Model with Endogenous Labor
Supply. Journal of Economic Policy Researches 7(2), 1-20. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Increasing Returns
and Economic Geography with Solow, Dixit-Stiglitz, and Krugman Unified. Spatial
Economics 16(2), 19-38.  
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Money and Growth in
a MIU-Based Walrasian General Equilibrium Model. Montenegrin Journal of
Economics 16(1), 7-20. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Creativity, Returns
to Scale, and Growth with Solow, Dixit-Stiglitz, and Romer Integrated. Eastern
Journal of Economics and Finance. 5(1), 1-16. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Optimal Taxation in
the Solow-Uzawa Growth Model with Public Goods. Journal of Social and
Development Sciences 10(3), 1-11. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Global Development,
Trade, Human Capital, and Business Cycles. Oradea Journal of Business and
Economics V(Special Issue), 9-29. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Global Growth and
National Urban Development with Housing. Fiscaoeconomia 4(2), 382-421. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Monopsony and
Discrimination in Labor Market in the Solow-Stiglitz Two-Group Neoclassical
Growth Model. World Journal of Applied Economics 6(1), 1-19. doi: 10.22440/wjae.6.1.1 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Economic Growth with
Tourism and Environmental Change. International Journal of Economic Development
Research (IJEDR) 1(2), 110-135. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Economic Growth,
Habit Formation, and Business Cycle. BizEcons Quarterly 10, 3-25. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Population, Wealth,
and Business Cycles with Job Discrimination. Sumerianz Journal of Social
Science 3(3), 23-32. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Monopolies and
Perfect Competition in Solow-Uzawa’s General Equilibrium Growth Model. Russian
Journal of Industrial Economics 12(4), 405-15. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Cournot-Nash Family
Decision and Economic Growth in an Extended Solowian Model. Academicus
International Scientific Journal 21, 101-14. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Social Capital,
Endogenous Labor Supply, and Economic Development. Asian Journal of Social
Sciences and Management Studies 7(1), 25-33.
https://doi.org/10.20448/journal.500.2020.71.25.33. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2020) Gender Power and
Family Decision in an Extended Solowian Economic Growth Model. Technium Social
Sciences Journal 5(1), 70-83. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Tax Competition
between Regional Governments and National and Interregional Economic Growth.
Sociology and Social Work Review.3(2), 6-31. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Education, Saving,
Tourism, Imported Energy, Foreign Good, and Trade Balance of a Small Open
Economy. Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal 3(ii), 9-28. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Growth, Corruption,
and Business Cycles. Current Analysis on Economics & Finance 1, 11-17. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Global Business
Cycles in a Neoclassical Growth Model with Spirits of Capitalism. Bulletin of
Economic Theory and Analysis 4(1), 13-33. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Competition versus
Monopolistic Competition by Integrating Solow-Uzawa and Dixit-Stiglitz. Ovidius
University Annals. Economic Sciences Series XIX(2), 390-400. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Monopsony and
Discrimination Against Woman in Labor Market in an Extended Solowian Model. Research
in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern Europe 11(2), 1-15. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Endogenous
Population in a Neoclassical Growth Model with Wealth and Time Values. Noble
International Journal of Economics and Financial Research. 45(9), 47-63. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Urban Growth and
Economic Fluctuations with Land Value and Land Rent. Malaysian Journal of
Economic Studies. 56(2), 267-77. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Tourism, Growth and
Business Cycles. International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance 10(4),
99-103. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Growth, Environment
and Business Cycles in a Multi-Regional Economy. Green Finance 1(2), 205-220.
doi: 10.3934/GF.2019.2.205. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Economic Growth and
the Taylor Rule in the Solow-Tobin Model. Asian Business Review 9(2), 49-56.
https://doi.org/10.18034/abr.v9i2.252. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) A Simple Growth
Model Based on Neoclassical Growth, Monopolistic Competition, and Walrasian
General Equilibrium Theories. International Journal of Academic Research in
Business and Social Sciences, 9(3) 1005-27. DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i3/5758 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Money and Price
Dynamics under the Gold Standard in the One-Sector Neoclassical Growth Model.
Lecturas de Economía 90, 45-69. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2019) Growth and National
Debt with Imported Goods, Tourism, and Public Good. Pakistan Journal of Applied
Economics. Special Issue 2018, 587-607. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2018) Public Knowledge,
Individual Human Capital, and Private Wealth in a Generalized Dynamic Walrasian
General Equilibrium Theory. Social Economic Debates.7(1), 74-99. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2018) Dynamic Interactions
Between Health, Human Capital and Wealth. Academicus International Scientific
Journal 17(January), 122-45. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2018) National Debt and
Economic Growth with Externalities and Congestions. Economic Alternatives
2018(2), 175-191. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2018) Regional Economic
Structure, Amenities and Disparities in a Neoclassical Growth Model. Eastern
European Journal for Regional Studies 4(2), 73-93. 
	
 
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		Zhang, W.B. (2018) An Integration of
Solow’s Growth and Dixit-Stiglitz’s Monopolistic Competition Models. SPOUDAI
Journal of Economics and Business 64(4), 3-19. 
	
 
	
 
	 
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