BORN: November 16th, 1969
GENDER: Female 
CITIZENSHIP: Chinese
CONTACT INFORMATION
Institute of Economics
School of Social Sciences
MingZhai, Room 203, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China, 100084
Phone: (86)10-62788151 (Office)
Email: zhaozhun@tsinghua.edu.cn
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Economics, Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, 2012- present
EDUCATION
Ph.D. of Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 1994-1997
M.A. of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 1991-1994
B.A. of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 1987-1991
EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of Economics, Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, 2001- 2012
Lecturer in Economics, Institute of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, 1997-2001
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea, August 2001- August 2002
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, August 2003- August 2004
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, New School for Social Research, the New school University, USA, August 2011- August 2012
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Economy, Political Economy of Money and Finance, Marx's Economic Manuscripts
RESEARCH PROJECT
“Hyman Minsky’s Political Economy of Stabilizing Macro-Economy.” Sponsored by National Social Science Fund
TEACHING
Undergraduate Courses
Intermediate of Political Economy; An Introduction to Political Economy of Money and Finance
Graduate Courses
Political Economy of Money and Finance; Special Topics on Political Economy
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Examining the Money -- A Study on Marx’s Monetary Theory, Beijing: Jinghua Press, 2000.
Translations
1“Can ‘It’ Happen Again ?” (Hyman P. Minsky, Routledge, 2016), the first chief translators, Tsinghua University Press, 2024, Awarded: TreasuryChina Books of the Year 2024" (Caizi Yijia)
2“Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis, ” (Anwar Shaikh, Oxford University Press, 2016), the first chief translators, Beijing: Citic Press Corp. 2021, Awarded: “J.P. Morgan 2021 Most Influential Finance Books”
3“An Exposition of Keynesian Theory of Investment,” by Hyman Minsky, translated by Sun Xiaoyu, Proofread by Zhao Zhun and Wang Sheng, The Chinese Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 5, 2021, June, pp. 127-148
4“The U.S.-China Trade Imbalance and the Theory of Free Trade: Debunking the Currency Manipulation Argument,” by Anwar Shaikh, Isabella Weber, translated by Dai Linshan and Liang Junshang, Proofread by Zhao Zhun, Social Sciences in China (Internal Circulation), No. 5, 2020, pp. 45-67
5“Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff,”by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin, China Review of Political Economy, Vol.6, No.6, Nov. 2015, pp. 143-161.
6“The First Great Depression of the 21st Century,”by Anwar Shaikh, Social Sciences in China (Internal Circulation), No. 5, 2013, pp. 184-198; Reprinted in Contemporary Economic Research,, No. 1, 2014, pp. 24-31; and Reprinted in Economic Theory, the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China (ICSS), No. 5, 2014, pp. 12-19.
7“Pitfalls Due to Financial Fragility”, by Hyman P. Minsky, in Reaganomics in the Stagflation Economy, edited by Sidney Weintraub and Marvin Goodstein, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983, pp 105-119, China Review of Political Economy, Vol.4 No. 1, Jan. 2013, pp210-221.
8“2008 Global Financial Crisis and the Revival of Minsky-- the Introduction of Minsky’s Stabilizing an Unstable Economy (2008 edition),” by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray, China Review of Political Economy, Vol.2, No.2, Apr. 2011, pp. 146-167.
9 Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change (3rd edition, Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards, and Frank Roosevelt, Oxford University Press, 2005), one of three major translators, Part 3 Macroeconomics, Part 4 Conclusion, Beijing: China Renmin University Press, 2010, pp.341-551.
10 A History of Marxist Economics (Michael Charles Howard and John Edward King, Macmillan, 1992), Chapter 9: Capitalism and Underdevelopment, Chapter 16: The “Second Slump”: Theories of Crisis after 1973, Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2002, pp.167-187, pp.313-337.
Articles
1“Keywords in Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis,” Translator’s Preface to “Can ‘It’ Happen Again ?”
Tsinghua University Press, 2024, pp. Ⅶ-ⅩⅥ
2“Why Does the Phillips Curve Fail in the Developed World? An Investigation Based on Post-Keynesian Economics,” Shanghai Journal of Economics, No.1, 2023, pp. 112-128
3“the Critique of equilibrium theory and the Reconstruction of Economics——Shaikh’s new book ‘Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, crisis’,” The Chinese Journal of Political Economy, No. 6, 2021, Vol. 20, pp. 151-165
4“Economic relationships and the law of Economics ---On MAO Zedong's economic thoughts in On the Ten Major Relationships and its Possible Realizing Ways,” Journal of Hebei University of Economics and Business, No. 6, 2013, Vol. 34, pp. 15-16
5“Richard Wolff and his ‘Democracy at Work’ movement,” Chinese Social Sciences Today, Marxist studies Monthly, June 26, 2013, B02
6“Review of Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change by Samuel Bowles, Richard Edward and Frank Roosevelt. (Jie Meng and Zhun Zhao) International Critical Thought, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2013, pp. 223-228
7“Two Research Focuses on Marx’s Economics Study,” Guangming Daily, August 5, 2011, P11.
8“Critiquing the Efficient Market Hypothesis,” Contemporary Asian Economy Research, Vol.1, No.3, October, 2010, pp.15-23.
9“Division Over the Efficient Market Hypothesis -- How Economists Rethink and Defend the Stability of Financial Markets after the Crisis,” China Review of Political Economy, Vol.1 No.2 April. 2010, pp.138-153; Reprinted in Economic Theory, the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China (ICSS), No.5. 2010, pp. 25-36.
10“An Introduction to the Course ‘Intermediate Political Economy’ Offered in Tsinghua University,” Teaching and Research, No.9, July 2009, pp.39-43; Reprinted in Theory and Practice in Socialist Economy, the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China (ICSS), No.11. 2009, pp. 89-93.
11“The Reason Why Marx Insisted on the Value Theory of Living Labor,” Teaching and Research, No.7, July 2008, pp.71-76.
12“A Study on Unemployment in Capitalist Economy by Contemporary Post-Marxist Economics in the US,” Contemporary Economic Research, No.4. 2008, pp.17-21; Partly Reprinted in Marxism Digest, No.6. 2008, pp.31-32.
13“A Survey of post-Marxist Macroeconomics,” Economic Perspectives, No.12. 2007, pp.17-21; Reprinted in Economic Theory, the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China (ICSS), No.4. 2008, pp.34-38.
13“An Alternative Interpretation of Marx's Value Theory,” (in English) The 11th Mini-conference of the International Working Group on Value Theory (IWGVT), EEA 30th Annual Conference, Washington D.C., Feb.20~22, 2004, http://www.iwgvt.org/iwg_sessions.php?year=2004; “A New Explanation on Marx's Value Theory,” Contemporary Economic Research, No.6. 2005, pp.9-14, Reprinted in Theory and Practice in Socialist Economy, the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China (ICSS), No.9. 2005, pp.3-8.
15“On How to Instruct Students to Write Papers and Make Research through Internet -- Experiences of Teaching Reforms of ‘Principle of Marxist Political Economy’,” Tsinghua Journal of, Vol.26 Sup. Nov. 2005, pp.144-147. Third Prize, Excellent Papers, High-education Research Association, Tsinghua University
16“Courses of Marxist Economics in the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US,” Economic Issues in China, No.4, 2005, pp.74-80.
16“The Present Situation of Research and Education in Marxist Economics in the US,” Economic Study of Shanghai School. No.10, 2005, pp.19-27.
18“The Development of Markets in China” (in Korean) Readings of Contemporary ChinaⅡ, HanU1 Publisher, 2003, pp.187-215. Two kinds of reform Roads: China and Russia, Tsinghua University Press, 2004. pp.102-119.
19“Study on the Endogenous Supply of Money in Contemporary Western Economics,” Toward the Development of Asia in the 21st Century, 2002’s Academic Conference of ISEF Association, Beijing, December 2002, pp.407-419.
20“Marx’s Theory of the Commodity of Labor Power and Wage Labor,” Reports on the Research of Political Economy, No.3. Beijing: Social Science Literature Press, 2002, pp.504-520.
21“Understanding the Labor Theory of Value by Means of Capital,” The 11th Conference of the National Association for Capital Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, April 2002.
22“On Marx’s Starting Point of the Concept of Capital -- Why does Money Transform into Capital Concurrently?” The 8th Conference of the National Association of the History of Marxist Economic Thought, Weihai, China, August 2001.
23“The Reform of State-owned Enterprises in China: from the Perspective of the Market,” The Reform and the Development of Contemporary China, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2001, pp.125-136.
24“China's Accession to the WTO: the Implications for the Labor Market,” Create More Wonders of China Economy, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2000, pp.93-102.
25“An Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value,” Teaching and Research, No.7, July 2000, pp.25-30.
26“On Marx’s Theory of Exchange Value in ‘Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58’ -- On the Historical Inevitability of Market Economy Concurrently,” Series on Marxist Sources, No.20, Beijing: Commercial Press, 2000, pp.68-84.
27“A Reflection on the Reform of the Student Performance Evaluation in the Course of the Introduction of Dengxiaoping’s Theory in Tsinghua University,” (Liu, Meixun; Cheng, Jianguo; Zhao, Zhun), Teaching and Research, No.1, January 2000, pp.64-68.
28“The Naissance and the Development of Marxist Political Economy,” (Chapter1) in Principles of Marxist Political Economy, edited by Liu, Meixun, Beijing: Beijing Press, 2nd ed. 2000, pp.1-37, 1st ed. 1999, pp.1-34.
29“An Inquiry into the Origins of Marx’s Theory of Ownership,” Journal of Tsinghua University, Vol. 13. No.3, 1998, pp.40-44. Reprinted in Economic Theory, the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China (ICSS), No.1. 1999, pp.1-8.
30“Why is the Market Inevitable? What Can We Learn from ‘Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58’,” Series on Marxist Sources, No.19. Beijing: Commercial Press, 1997, pp.610-627.
31“Two Stages of the Social Economic Forms,” (Chapter5) in New Principles of Marxist Political Economy, edited by Gu, Hailiang, Beijing: National Defense University Press, 1997, pp.136-159.
32“A Summary of the 5th Academic Conference of the National Association of the History of Marxist Economic Thought,” (Wu, Jingmin; Zhao, Zhun), Economic Perspectives, No.1. January 1996, pp.69-72.
33“On the Structure of Property Rights of Joint Stock Companies,” Journal of Lanzhou University, No.1. 1995, pp.40-44.
34“Only the Distribution according to the Value of Labor-force can Realize the Contribution According to Work,” Gansu Labor, No.5. 1993, pp.18-19.
35“On Labor as a Commodity and the Labor Market under Socialist Market Economy,” (Zhang, Zhaoke; Zhao, Zhun), Gansu Labor, No.4. 1993, pp.18-20.
36“Information: A Golden Key to the Prosperous Future,” (Chapter7) in Know the Enemy and Yourself, and You Will Be Unconquerable: the Successful Experiences of Japanese Small and Medium-sized Businesses, edited by Wang, Guanyi, Yinchuan: Ningxia People Press, 1993, pp.164-185.
37“The Reform of the Financial System in China,” (Chapter5) in The Big Trends of Economic System in China, edited by Gao, Xingcai, Lanzhou: Lanzhou University Press, 1993, pp.120-144.
38“On the Problems and the Countermeasures of Employment in Lanzhou,” Lanzhou Economy Research, No.5-6. 1992, pp.60-62.
