The year 2020 was destined to be the most unusual year of the century.
The UA election entered the last three days of countdown. SS Origin arrived at the edge of the solar system and had been orbiting along the Kuiper Belt for half a month. The dawn of the New Era had already risen. While everyone was looking forward to the dawn that was about to rise, looking forward to the beautiful life of the next era, the accumulated corruption and contradictions of the old era were already on the verge of bursting out like a flood.
The world was waiting for the UA people to make a choice. From the beginning to the end, this election occupied the top of the global hot news.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a world-famous institution of higher learning.
Sitting in the corner of the library, Frank Dobbin was reading the Wall Street Journal with a frown.
As a professor of social sciences at Harvard University, as a leader in the contemporary "legal economic theory", his many works on social economics enjoyed high acclaim in the international community. And unlike most sociology professors of theoretical schools, his research direction was closer to reality than empty theory and focused on the value of theory in practical application.
It was precisely because of this that his classes were not only popular among Harvard students but also popular among large and medium-sized enterprises. His lesson plans were not only repeatedly studied by social sciences students, but also used as a reference book by many corporate management departments.
To be precise, Frank Dobbin was staring at a report on Celestial Trade.
Recently, the media in the UA had been flooded by SS Origin. Whether it was a serious scientific journal or a seemingly unrelated financial weekly, the recent articles were more or less related to "SS Origin", "Celestial Trade", and "Xin".
The reason why he was so interested in this report was mainly because he had recently been writing a new book that combined various social forms, analyzed the problems in the two major propositions of society and economy, and the connections between them. At the same time, he made a certain degree of prediction on the future social and economic forms.
And Xin and Celestial Trade were a very important typical case in his upcoming new book.
From Celestial Trade, he saw the final form of the development of capitalism that dominated the Western world and the state capitalism advocated by Lenin. That was, a deformed enterprise, without the constraints of the anti-monopoly law, would eventually brutally merge all industries and fields that could produce surplus value, and eventually, the government itself would be "merged" into a part of the enterprise …
Prediction was something that academics all over the world loved to do.
As the tidbits of a great work, an appropriate prediction could not only elevate the level of the entire work, but it could also provide a certain degree of guidance for the future. Besides, it didn't matter even if his guess was wrong. After all, the limitations of the thoughts and horizons of the "people of the past" were understandable to those who studied history in the future.
And if he guessed correctly, then it would be incredible.
Not only would the style of the entire work be elevated infinitely, even the author himself would be shocked …
Of course, when writing the book at hand, Frank Dobbin did not think that far ahead. He was seriously considering this issue at the moment, about the oath that Western socioeconomics could take from the rise of Celestial Trade, and about the future prospects of the Celestial Trade model.
"Are you still researching that project?"
With a cup of coffee in his hand, Christopher Grandy sat across from him. As a scholar in the same field, his research direction was similar to Professor Frank Dobbin's, and the two often discussed certain issues. As for the unpublished book, Professor Grundy had the privilege of reading the manuscript, and he quite agreed with some of the ideas in it.
Except for one point, the part about Xin.
"The Xin model is worth learning from. It may not be suitable for the entire UA, but it is suitable for the future. This model briefly appeared in the colonies of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and other countries before the eighteenth century, but it was eventually eliminated by history due to its own reasons. This system with many problems will be restored in the twenty-first century, and the underlying reasons are worth our consideration … "
As he spoke, Frank Dobbin wrote this on the notebook next to him. However, for some reason, when he wrote halfway, he stopped, shook his head, and crossed out this line from the manuscript.
"There are many coincidences in the rise of Xin. If you want to summarize the advantages and disadvantages of a certain social system by studying the history of Celestial Trade, the final result will definitely disappoint you," Professor Grundy took a sip of the coffee in his cup. Professor Grundy took a sip of the coffee in his cup and said, "Because the advantage of Celestial Trade does not come from their system, but from their leadership in science and technology."
"So my dear friend, why can Celestial Trade achieve a leading position in the field of science and technology?" Professor Dobbin smiled and asked casually.
"Maybe it's just luck." Professor Grundy shrugged.
"Luck?" Frank Dobbin shook his head with a smile and closed the notebook. "I plan to go to Xin in person. Just sitting in the library, you and I may never understand this question. "
"Even if I go," Christopher Grundy said. Christopher Grundy said, "Last year, I went to Coro University with the Harvard academic exchange group. I also visited the president of Coro University and discussed this issue with him."
"What's the final conclusion?" Frank Dobbin raised an eyebrow.
"There is no conclusion. We can't find any case in history that can define the rise of Celestial Trade." Professor Grundy shook his head.
"Because you're talking about the wrong person. If it were me, I would visit Jiang Chen directly."
Seeing that his friend had no intention of changing his mind, Professor Grundy sighed.
"The president of Coro University is Rafael Leif. When I was on an academic exchange at MIT, I got along well with him. I will write a letter of introduction for you. If you want to see Jiang Chen, you can ask him for help. "
"Thank you," Frank Dobbin said gratefully.
"You're welcome."
Jiang Chen, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, would never imagine how much shock Future Heavy Industries' SS Origin brought to the world on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. This shock was not limited to the conversations of ordinary people. The social sciences majors of major universities all used Celestial Trade as a typical case study. Aerospace companies concentrated in Silicon Valley, B City, and Florida all regarded Future Heavy Industries and Celestial Trade as goals to catch up with …
At this moment, it was still early in the morning on Coro Island.
Jiang Chen, who was sitting at the table, also saw the report published in the Wall Street Journal …
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