曾任香港城市大学经济及金融系客座教授、高级研究员,逢甲大学董事,《经济年鉴》编辑等。现任台大经济系教授,浙江大学经济学院客座教授,浙江大学法律与经济研究中心主任,中国科技大学管理学院客座教授。研究领域为法律经济学和经济学方法论,学术论文刊于American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Review of Law and Economics,European Journal of Law and Economics,Journal of Bioeconomics ,KYKLOS等。除学术论文外,出版过《灯塔的故事》、《正义的成本》、《优雅的理性》等书。多年来撰述 《经济散文》,应邀在台湾《联合报》副刊、《印刻生活文学志》 月刊、《联合文学》月刊,《苹果日报》、香港《信报》、大陆《南方周末》及《读书》撰写专栏,已发表百万字以上。
英文成果
(1)“Sailing Towards the Brave New World of Zero Transaction Costs,” European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 153-69, 1999. (SSCI)
(2)“On The Equivalence and Non-equivalence of James Buchanan and Ronald Coase,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 156(4): 715-736, 2000. (SSCI)
(3)“An Economic Interpretation of The Diamond Sutra,” Journal of Inter-disciplinary Economics, 12: 17-39, 2000.
(4)“A Note on Earmarked Taxes,” Public Finance Review, 29(3): 223-232, 2001. (SSCI)
(5)“A Methodological Comparison of Ronald Coase and Gary Becker,” American Law and Economics Review, 3(1): 186-198, 2001. (SSCI)
(6)“The Concept of Relativity and Economic Theorizing,” Journal of Inter-disciplinary Economics, 13(4): 351-370, 2002.
(7)“Ronald Coase’s Method of Constructing More Realistic Models of Choice,” Review of Political Economy, 14(2): 227-239, 2002. (with Patrick Gunning)
(8)“Reconciling Coase and Buchanan on the Coase Theorem,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 159(2): 392-413, 2003. (SSCI)
(9)“An Interpretation of Ronald Coase’s Analytical Approach,” History of Economics Review, 39: 12-32, 2004.
(10)“The Commonality between Economics and Law,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 15(1): 33-56, 2004. (SSCI)
(11)“Coase Theorem and the Taiwan Strait Conflict,” KYKLOS, 57(4): 513-26, 2004. (SSCI)
(12)“Economic Analysis of Law: An Inquiry of Its Underlying Logic,” Erasmus Law and Economics Review, 2(1): 1-33,
(13)“On Economics as a Worldview,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 17(4), 425-443, 2006.
(14)“Ronald Coase’s Englishness and Steven Cheung’s Chineseness,” Pacific Economic Review, 12(2): 171-187, 2007. (SSCI)
(15)“Economics 0, 1, 2?—Illustrating the Core Insights of Economic Analysis,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 19(2-3): 263-88, 2008.
(16)“Ten Questions for Legal Scholars,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 21(2):111-142, 2009.
(17)“Benchmarks and Economic Analysis,” Review of Law and Economics, 5(1): 75-99, 2009.
(18)“Guanxi: Personal Connections in Chinese Society,” Journal of Bioeconomics, 15(1): 17-40, 2013.
(19)“A Measure to Fight China’s Worsening Income Distribution,” China Studies, 2(2): 89-91, 2013
(20)“Commons, Anti-commons, and In-betweens,” European Journal of Law and Economics, on-line Oct. 23, 2013. (SSCI)
(21)“Coase, Cairncross, and Britishness,” under revision for History of Economic Ideas, 2015.
(22)“Familial Relations as Rent Seeking,” Modern Economy, forthcoming, 2015.
(23)“On the Equivalence of Commons and Anti-commons,” Economic Papers and Notes, 2014.