Publications

Books in English

  1. Welfare Economics: Introduction and Development of Basic Concepts, London: Macmillan, 1979, pp. xvi + 332; second edition, 1983.
  2. ** Mesoeconomics: A Micro-Macro Analysis. 1986, London: Harvester, pp. xvi + 267.
  3. * Social Welfare and Economic Policy. 1990, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. xx + 243.
  4. ** Specialization and Economic Organization: A New Classical Microeconomic Framework. In “Contributions to Economic Analysis”, Vol. 215, 1993, Amsterdam: North Holland, pp. xvi + 507, with Xiaokai Yang (Monash).
  5. * Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, ed., London: Macmillan, 1998, with Kenneth Arrow and Xiaokai Yang.
  6. ** Efficiency, Equality, and Public Policy: With a case for Higher Public Spending, London: Macmillan, 2000, pp. vii + 189(ISBN 0-333-67165-1).
  7. * Ng, Yew-Kwang, Heling Shi and Guangzhen Sun, eds. (2003), The Economics of e-Commerce and Networking Decisions: Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003, 344 pages (ISBN 0-333-99932-0).
  8. ** Welfare Economics: Towards a Complete Analysis, London: Macmillan, 2004, pp. xiii+355 (ISBN 0-333-97121-3).
  9. Happiness and Public Policy: Theory, Case Studies, and Implications, Palgrave/Macmillan, London, 2006; ed. with LS. Ho.
    ** Increasing Returns and Economic Efficiency, contract signed with Palgrave/Macmillan, U.K.
     

Books in Chinese

  1. Welfare Economics (Chinese translation). 1991, Peking: Friendship Press, pp. 15 + 417.
  2. The Unparalleled Mystery. (A novel in Chinese incorporating mysteries, kungfu, love stories, and economics). Beijing: Writers Press, 1994, pp. 1-230.
  3. Economics and Reforms: Collected Papers of Professor Yew-Kwang Ng. (In Chinese). Beijing: Reform Press, August 1994, pp. 1-382.
  4. Mesoeconomics (Chinese translation). Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Publishers, 1996.
  5. Economics and Happiness, Taipei: Maw Chang, 1999
  6. Specialization and Economic Organization (Chinese translation), Beijing: Economic Science Press, 1999.
  7. Welfare Economics, (Translation in non-simplified Chinese characters), Taipei: Maw Chang, 1999.
  8. Economics and Happiness, (simplified characters version), Dongbei Chaijing University Press China, 2000, pp. 1 + 359 (ISBN 7-81044-727-0). Received China Book Award for 2002.
  9. Economy and Life, Sichuan People’s Publishers, 338 pages (ISBN 7-220-05794-6/F.617). 2002.
  10. Efficiency, Equality, and the Foundation of Public Policy: With a case for Higher Public Spending, Chinese translation by Tang Xiang. Social Sciences Literature Publishers, Beijing, 2003, 252 pages (ISBN 7-80149-902-6/F.320).
  11. Economics and Society, Beijing: Economic Science Press, 2005, pp.277 (ISBN 7-5058-5053-0/F.4307).
  12. Social Welfare and Economic Policy, Peking University Press, 2005, pp.ii+276 (ISBN 7-301-07792-0/F.0924).
  13. Welfare Economics: Towards a Complete Analysis, Chinese translated, published by Dongbei University of Finance and Economics Press, 2005, pp.3+255, ISBN 7-81084-667-1.

Selected Chapters in Books

  1. "Some Broader Issues of Social Choice", in P. K. Pattanaik and M. Salles, eds., Social Choice and Welfare, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1983, 151-174.
  2. "Non-neutrality of money under non-perfect competition: why do economists fail to see the possibility?" In Arrow, Ng, and Yang, eds., Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, London: Macmillan, 1998, 232-252.
  3. "The welfare economics of encouraging more births", in Alan Woodland, ed. Economic Theory and International Trade: Essays in Honour of Murray C. Kemp. Edward Elgar, 2002, pp.57-67.
  4. Ng, Y.K. and Wills, I. (2002). "Welfare economics and sustainable development", in Knowledge for Sustainable Development - An Insight into the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO Publishing / Eolss Publishers, Paris, France, Oxford, UK. Vol. 3, pp. 485-506.

Selected Papers in Refereed Periodicals

Welfare Economics and Public Policy

  1. "The Possibility of a Paretian Liberal: Impossibility Theorems and Cardinal Utility", Journal of Political Economy, November-December 1971, 1397-1402. Reprinted in C.K. Rowley, ed., Social Choice Theory, 1993.
  2. "Value Judgements and Economists’ Role in Policy Recommendation", Economic Journal, September 1972, 1014-1018. Reprinted in W. Marr and B. Raj, eds., How Economists Explain - A Reader in Methodology, Washington: University Press of America, 1983.
  3. "Monopoly, X-Efficiency, and the Measurement of Welfare Loss", Economica, August 1972, 301-308, with R. Parish (Monash).
  4. "Income Distribution as a Peculiar Public Good: The Paradox of Redistribution and the Paradox of Universal Externality", Public Finance, 1973, 1-10.
  5. "The Economic Theory of Clubs: Pareto Optimality Conditions", Economica, August 1973, 291-298.
  6. *"Optimal Pricing with Budgetary Constraints: The Case of the Two-Part Tariff", Review of Economic Studies, July 1974, 337-345, with M. Weisser (New England). Japanese translation, Tokyo Gas Company.
  7. *"Bentham or Bergson? Finite Sensibility, Utility Functions and Social Welfare Functions", Review of Economic Studies, 1975, 545-570.
  8. "The Paradox of Universal Externality", Journal of Economic Theory, 1975, 258-264.
  9. *"On the Existence of Social Welfare Functions, Social Orderings, and Social Decisions Functions", Economica, February 1976, 59-66, with M. C. Kemp (N.S.W.). Reprinted in Mueller, Dennis C., ed. The Economics of Politics. Volume 2. Elgar Reference Collection. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 131. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass.: Elgar; distributed by American International Distribution Corporation, Williston, Vt., 2001; 530-37.
  10. *"Towards a Theory of Third-Best", Public Finance, 1977, 1-15.
  11. "Optimal Corrective Taxes or Subsidies when Revenue Raising Imposes Excess Burden", American Economic Review, September 1980, 744-751.
  12. "Bentham or Nash? On the Acceptable Form of Social Welfare Functions", Economic Record, 1981, 57: 238-250.
  13. "Welfarism: A Defence Against Sen’s Attack", Economic Journal, June 1981, 91: 527-530.
  14. "Beyond Pareto Optimality: The Necessity of Interpersonal Cardinal Utilities in Distributional Judgements and Social Choice", Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 1982, 42(3): 207-233.
  15. *"Quasi-Pareto Social Improvements", American Economic Review, December 1984, 74(5):1033-1050.
  16. "Expected Subjective Utility: Is the Neumann-Morgenstern Utility the Same as the Neoclassical’s?", Social Choice and Welfare, 1984, 177-186.
  17. "Interpersonal Level Comparability Implies Comparability of Utility Differences", Theory and Decision, 1984, 141-147.
  18. "Equity and Efficiency versus Freedom and Fairness: An Inherent Conflict", Kyklos, 1985, 495-516.
  19. *"Diamonds are a Government’s Best Friend: Burden-Free Taxes on Goods Valued for Their Values", American Economic Review, March 1987, 77: 186-191.
  20. *"Relative-Income Effects and the Appropriate Level of Public Expenditure", Oxford Economic Papers, June 1987, 293-300.
  21. "Economic Efficiency versus Egalitarian Rights", Kyklos, 1988, 215-237.
  22. "Individual Irrationality and Social Welfare", Social Choice and Welfare, 1989, 6, 87-101.
  23. "Should We Be Very Cautious or Extremely Cautious on Measures that May Involve Our Destruction? On the Finiteness of Our Expected Welfare", Social Choice and Welfare, 1991, 8(1): 79-88.
  24. *"The enrichment of a sector (individual/region/country) benefits others: The third welfare theorem?", Pacific Economic Review, Nov. 1996, 1(2): 93-115.
  25. "Quality adjusted life years (Qalys) versus willingness to pay in matters of life and death", International Journal of Social Economics, 25: 1178-1188, 1998.
  26. "Utility, informed preference or happiness?" Social Choice and Welfare, 16(2): 197-216, 1999.
  27. •"The optimal size of public spending and distortionary costs of taxation", National Tax Journal, Vol. 52(2), June 2000, pp. 253-272.
  28. "Why do economists overestimate the costs of public spending?", Newsletter of Royal Economic Society (UK), July 2000.
  29. Yew-Kwang Ng & Jiangou Wang, "Attitude choice, economic change, and welfare", Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2001, 45: 279-291.
  30. Siang Ng & Yew-Kwang Ng "Welfare-reducing growth despite individual and government optimization", Social Choice and Welfare, 2001, 18: 497-506.
  31. "Is public spending good for you?", World Economics, invited but refereed contribution, April-June 2001, 2(2): 1-17.
  32. *"From preference to happiness: Towards a more complete welfare economics", Social Choice & Welfare, 2003, 20: 307-50.
  33. Yew-Kwang Ng & Guangzhen Sun, "Exclusion of self evaluations in peer ratings: an impossibility and some proposals", Social Choice and Welfare, 2003, 20(3): 443-56.
  34. "Policy implications of behavioural economics: With special reference to the optimal level of public spending", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 2005, 38(3):298-306.
  35. "Intergenerational impartiality: Replacing discounting by probability weighting", Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2005, 18(3), pp 237-57.
  36. Matthew Clarke & Yew-Kwang Ng, Population dynamics and animal welfare: Issues raised by the culling of kangaroos in Puckapunyal, Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27: 407-22.

Microeconomics

  1. "Why do People buy Lottery Tickets? Choices involving Risk and the Indivisibility of Expenditure", Journal of Political Economy, October 1965, 530-535.
  2. "A Note on Profit Maximization", Australian Economic Papers, June 1969, 106-110.
  3. "Competition, Monopoly, and the Incentive to Invent", Australian Economic Papers, June 1971, 45-49.
  4. "Step-Optimization, Secondary Constraints, and Giffen Goods", Canadian Journal of Economics, November 1972, 553-560.
  5. "Sub-semiorder: A Model of Multi-dimensional Choice with Preference Intransitivity", Journal of Mathematical Psychology, August 1977, 51-59.
  6. "Equity, Efficiency, and Financial Viability: Public-Utility Pricing with Special Reference to Water Supply", Australian Economic Review, 3rd Quarter 1987, 21-35.
  7. "Do Individuals Optimize in Intertemporal Consumption/Savings Decisions? A Liberal Method to Encourage Savings", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1992, 17: 101-114.
  8. "The Older the More Valuable: Divergence between Utility and Dollar Values of Life as One Ages", Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie), 1992, 55(1): 1-16.
  9. "Mixed Diamond Goods and Anomalies in Consumer Theory: Upward-Sloping Compensated Demand Curves with Unchanged Diamondness", Mathematical Social Sciences, 1993, 25: 287-293.
  10. "Work Quality and Optimal Pay Structure: Piece vs. Hourly Rates in Employee Remuneration", Economic Letters, 1995, 47: 409-416, with He-ling Shi (Monash).
  11. "A Case for Cardinal Utility and Non-arbitrary Choice of Commodity Units", Social Choice & Welfare, 1995, 12: 255-266, with Jianguo Wang (New South Wales).
  12. "Intra-firm branch competition for a monopolist", Australian Economic Papers, 38(3): 238-249, September 1999, with Wenli Cheng (NZ Treasury).
  13. "The measurement of structural differences between economies: An axiomatic characterization", Economic Theory, 16, (2000), 313-321. with Guangzheng Sun (Max-Planck-Institute for Research into Economic Systems)
  14. "Orthodox economics and economists: Strengths and weaknesses", Singapore Economic Review. 2003, 48(1):81-94.
     

Macroeconomics and Micro-Macro

  1. "Aggregate Demand, Business Expectation, and Economic Recovery without Aggravating Inflation", Australian Economic Papers, June 1977, 130-140.
  2. * "Macroeconomics with Non-perfect Competition", Economic Journal, September 1980, 598-610.
  3. * "A Micro-Macroeconomic Analysis Based on a Representative Firm", Economica, May 1982, 49: 121-139.
  4. "Macroeconomics with Non-perfect Competition: Tax-cuts and Wage Increases", Australian Economic Papers, 1983, 22(41), 431-447, with L. McGregor (Monash).
  5. "Business Confidence and Depression Prevention: A Mesoeconomic Perspective", American Economic Review, May 1992, 82(2): 365-371.
  6. "On estimating the effects of events like the Asian financial crisis: A mesoeconomic approach", Taiwan Economic Review, 27 (4): 393-412, December 1999.
  7. Ng, Yew-Kwang and Ying Wu, "Multiple equilibria and interfirm macro-externality: An analysis of sluggish real adjustments", Annals of Economics and Finance, 2004, 5: 61-77.

Happiness

  1. "Economic Growth and Social Welfare: The Need for a Complete Study of Happiness", Kyklos, 1978, 575-587. Reprinted in Easterlin, Richard A., ed. Happiness in Economics. Elgar Reference Collection. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 142. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass.: Elgar; distributed by American International Distribution Corporation, Williston, Vt., 2002; 66-77.
  2. "Money and Happiness: First Lesson in Eudaimonology?", Kyklos, 1980, 161-163.
  3. "Toward Eudaimonology: Notes on a Quantitative Framework for the Study of Happiness", Mathematical Social Sciences, 1980, 1(51-58).
  4. "Relative Income, Aspiration, Environmental Quality, Individual and Political Myopia: Why May the Rat-Race for Material Growth be Welfare-Reducing?", Mathematical Social Sciences, 1993, 26: 3-23, with Jianguo Wang (Monash).
  5. * "Happiness surveys: Some comparability issues and an exploratory survey based on just perceivable increments", Social Indicators Research, 38(1): 1-29, May 1996.
  6. "A case for happiness, cardinalism, and interpersonal comparison", Economic Journal, 107(445): 1848-1858, November 1997.
  7. * "The East-Asian happiness gap", Pacific Economic Review, 2002, 7(1): 51-63.
  8. "Economic policies in the light of happiness studies with reference to Singapore", Singapore Economic Review, 2002, 47(2): 199-212.
  9. * "Environmentally responsible happy nation index", Social Indicators Research, accepted for publication.

Environmental Economics

  1. Ng, Yew-Kwang and Po-Ting Liu, "Global environmental protection – solving the international public-good problem by empowering the United Nations through cooperation with WTO", International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2003, 3(4): 409-17.
  2. "Sustainable development: A problem of environmental disruption now instead of intertemporal ethics", Sustainable Development, 2004, 12: 150-60.
  3. "Optimal environmental charges/taxes: Easy to estimate and surplus-yielding", Environmental and Resource Economics, 2004, 28(4):395-408.
  4. "Eternal Coase and external costs: A case for bilateral taxation and amenity rights", European Journal of Political Economy, accepted for publication.

Population and Immigration Issues

  1. "On the Welfare Economics of Population Control", Population and Development Review, June 1986, 12: 247-266.
  2. "Social Criteria for Evaluating Population Change: An Alternative to the Blackorby-Donaldson Criterion", Journal of Public Economics, 1986, 29: 375-381.
  3. "Hurka’s Gamble and Methuselah’s Paradox", Social Choice and Welfare, 1989, 6: 45-49.
  4. "What Should We Do About Future Generations? The Impossibility of Parfit’s Theory X", Economics and Philosophy, 1989, 5: 135-253.
  5. "Immigration and Economic Welfare: Resource and Environmental Aspects", Economic Record, September 1993, 69(206): 259-273, with Harry Clarke (La Trobe).

Division of Labour and Increasing Returns

  1. "Theory of the Firm and Structure of Residual Rights", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1995, 26: 107-128, with Xiaokai Yang (Monash).
  2. Yew-Kwang Ng & Siang Ng, "Do the economies of specialization justify the work ethics? An examination of Buchanan’s hypothesis", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003, 50: 339-53.
  3. "Division of labour and transaction costs: An introduction", Division of Labour & Transaction Costs, 2005, 1(1):1-13.
  4. Y-K. Ng & Dingsheng Zhang, "Increasing returns and the Smith dilemma", Singapore Economic Review, 2005, 50: 407-16.
  5. "Do the economies of specialization justify the work ethics? A further examination of Buchanan’s hypothesis", Forthcoming in Annals in Economics & Finance.
  6. Waka Cheung & Yew-Kwang Ng, "Specialization and cooperation in research", Forthcoming in Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics.
  7. Yew-Kwang Ng & Dingsheng Zhang, "Average-cost pricing, increasing returns, and optimal output: comparing home and market production", Journal of Economics, accepted for publication.
  8. Yew-Kwang Ng & Siang Ng, "Why should governments encourage improvements in infrastructure? Indirect network externality of transaction efficiency", Public Finance and Management, accepted for publication.

Biology

  1. "The Paradox of the Adventurous Young and the Cautious Old: Natural Selection versus Rational Calculation", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1991, 153: 339-352.
  2. * "Towards Welfare Biology: Evolutionary Economics of Animal Consciousness and Suffering", Biology & Philosophy, 1995, 10(3): 255-285.
  3. * "Complex Niches Favour Rational Species", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 179(4): 303-311, April 1996.

Philosophy

  1. "My Philosophy", Repository (Nanyang University), 1963, 28-43.
  2. "An Argument for Utilitarianism", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, June 1981, 11: 229-239, with Peter Singer (Monash).
  3. "Welfarism and Utilitarianism: A Rehabilitation", Utilitas, November 1990, 2(2): 171-193.
  4. "Utilitarianism and Interpersonal Comparison: Some Implications of a Materialist Solution to the World Knot", Social Choice and Welfare, 1992, 9(1): 1-15.
  5. "Infinite Utility and Liedekerke’s Impossibility", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, September 1995, 73(3): 408-412.
  6. "From separability to unweighted sum: A case for utilitarianism", Theory and Decision, 2000, 49: 299-312

Others

  1. "Equivalent Changes/Differences for Percentages and Probabilities", Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, June 1991, Volume XLIX, No. 2, 289-301.
  2. Yew-Kwang Ng & Yeong-Nan Yeh, "Comparative-statics without the differentiation of the first-order conditions", Economic Letters, 2003, 78:161-6.

Selected Articles in the Popular Press (Mostly Chinese)

  1. "Classical Chinese Poems", Sing Bing Daily, 8 June 1980.
  2. "The Significance of Welfare Economics for the Modernization of China" (in Chinese), Chung Pao Monthly, October 1984, 10,000 words. Reprinted in Reprints and Translation for Reference (an official Chinese publication for cadres). This article is based on a lecture given at the Institute of Economics, Academy of Social Sciences, Peking, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, early in 1984.
  3. "The Problems of Speculation and Monopoly in the Chinese Economy", Cheng Ming Monthly, July 1985, 8,000 words.
  4. "The Undesirable Consequences of the One-Child Policy: A Rational Analysis of Population Policies", The Nineties Monthly, October 1985, 11,000 words.
  5. "Chinese-Style Socialism from the Viewpoint of Modern Economics", Mirror Monthly, January 1986, 8,000 words.
  6. "Don’t Cheer Yet: More Strong Medicine Needed", Times on Sunday, 17 May 1987.
  7. "Freedom, Democracy, and Economic Systems", The Thinker (Shanghai), January 1989, 37-42.
  8. "Diamonds could be Keating’s best friend", The Age, 23 June 1989.
  9. "How to raise government revenue without any burden? With reference to Hong Kong", Hong Kong Economic Journal, December 1989, 79-83.
  10. "Soul-snatching Devils" (a novel of about 120,000 words incorporating some economic principles), serialized daily in Nanyang Daily, Malaysia, December 1989 - March 1990.
  11. "Are There Valid Economic Grounds for Restricting Immigration?", Economic Papers, March 1991, 10(1): 71-76, with Harry Clarke (La Trobe).
  12. "Exploding the myths of migrant effects", Financial Review, Tuesday, July 16, 1991, with Harry Clarke (La Trobe).
  13. "On the Possibility of Multipersonal Judgments", Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University, 27(4): 108-109.
  14. "The Economic and Political Prospects of China", Hong Kong Economic Journal, August 1993, 41-44.
  15. "Can’t Move! How to reduce traffic congestion in large cities?", Taiwan Economic Research Monthly, February 1994, 91-93.
  16. "Why do economists underestimate the benefits (welfare) of environmental protection and public goods? A discussion of the effects of relative income", Economic Outlook Quarterly, April 1994, 131-134.
  17. "Relative income and diamond effects: A case for burden-free taxes and higher public expenditure", Economic Papers, 14(4): 29-33, December 1995.
  18. "Reconstructing economic ethics in China", Hong Kong Economic Journal, 238: 3-6, January 1997.
  19. "Happiness, cardinalism and interpersonal comparability: The economist’s prejudice against subjective concepts", Twenty-First Century, 43: 150-159, October 1997.
  20. "How much should government revenue and spending be?" Hong Kong Economic Journal, 243: 6-8, June 1997.
  21. "Can economic growth increase happiness?" Hong Kong Economic Journal, 255: 49-53, June 1998.
  22. "Economy in poems: with some ‘single-word’ poems" Hong Kong Economic Journal, October 1998, 62-64.
  23. "The contributions of Amartya Sen and some related controversies", Contemporary, Issue No. 135, November 1998, 52-59.
  24. "On China’s state enterprise reform", Harvard China Review, 1998, Vol.1(1): 32-5.
  25. "Who do the World Bank and IMP differ on the East Asian Financial crisis? A mesoeconomic perspective", Economic Research Journal (Beijing), Issue 369, Jan. 1999, 18-21.
  26. "The mutually beneficial economic relationship between Taiwan and Mainland China", Economic Outlook Bimonthly, Issue No. 61 (January 1999), 10-15, with Siang Ng (Monash).
  27. "The presumption of innocence and double jeopardy: Is it reasonanle for the employer to fire convicts?" Hong Kong Economic Journal, No.264, March 1999, 79-80.
  28. "The economics of returnees", Economic Outlook, May 1999.
  29. "The method of balance in peer assessment", Global Views Monthly (Taipei), July 1999, 128-9.
  30. "Theory and practice: Why should the five-day week be encouraged?" Economic Outlook Bimonthly (Taipei), No. 65, Sep. 1999, 100-2.
  31. "The current economic problems in China: demand or supply side?" Economic Highlights, October 1999.
  32. "Life is more valuable for the old", Economic Highlights (China), No. 354, 17 Dec. 1999, 1 and 4.
  33. "Was Fan Gang Wrong?", Economic Highlights, No. 367, January 2000, 4.
  34. "The Economics Of Education Reform", Economic Highlights, No. 371, February 2000, 4.
  35. "WTO, Cars and Diamond Goods", Economic Highlights, April 2000, 4.
  36. "Economics and Happiness – Report on Conference at Nuffield College, Oxford", Hong Kong Economic Journal, No. 277, April 2000, 74-75.
  37. "Resolving the Difficulty of Substitution", Economic Highlights, May 2000, 4.
  38. "Why do Economists Overestimate the Costs of Public Spending?", Royal Economic Society Newsletter, Issue 110, July 2000, 5-7.
  39. "Car, Coase and Bilateral Taxation", Economic Highlights, Issue No. 392, July 2000, 4.
  40. "Anti-subjectivism is Unreasonable", Hong Kong Economic Journal, No. 281, August 2000, 35-37.
  41. "Happiness, Welfare and Humanism: A response to Dr Chen Hui-Xiong", Cai Jing Lun Cong (Collected Essays on Finance and Economics) (China), Issue 84, No. 5, 2000, 8; Reprinted in Chinese Social Sciences Digest, No.1, 2001, 56.
  42. "Resolving the Difficulty of Substitution Again", Economic Highlights, No. 198, 18 August 2000, 4.
  43. "The principle of mutual gain and China’s entry into WTO", Economic Highlights, No.403, 22 September 2000, p.4.
  44. "The inefficiency of private consumption", Economic Outlook Bimonthly, January 2001, 106-114.
  45. "The effects of internet on the economy", Hong Kong Economic Journal, Jan. 2001, 15-9, with Heling Shi.
  46. "Let me like paying taxes to buy civilization", United Daily (Taipei), 16 Feb. 2001, p.15, with C. Chou.
  47. "Learning from the public choice theory", China Times (Taipei), 17 Feb. 2001, p.15.
  48. "Why not charging for writing reference letters?" Economic Highlights, 2 March 2001, p.4.
  49. "Delaying relaxation of restriction on trade with the Mainland is detrimental to the transformation of the Taiwan economy", China Times, 7 April 2001, p.15.
  50. "Emphasizing environental protection and public health", Economic Highlights, 29 June 2001, p.4.
  51. "Absulutely no free lunch?", Economic Highlights, 13 July 2001, p.4.
  52. "From the Sino-American-Japanese relationships to the direction of development", Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly, July 2001, pp.47-9.
  53. "Paper Submission in the Electronic Age", Newsletter of Royal Economic Society (UK), July 2001.
  54. "Economic magnitudes and geographical latitudes - a review of Philip Parker's Physioeconomics, published in Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift fur Nationaleconomie), 75(3), 2002: 255-61.
  55. Review of Bruno S. Frey’s Inspiring Economics. Published in Journal of Economic Literature, LX, 2002, 1233-4.
  56. "The problem is not inadequate consumption but the transfer of savings into investment", 21st Century Business Herald, No. 112 (30 January 2003), p.30.
  57. "On reducing the burdens of students", Economic Highlights, 27 June 2003, p.5.
  58. "A dollar is a dollar: Why should efficiency rule exclusively in specific issues?" Teahouse for Economists, Vol. 14, Oct. 2003, pp.4-7.
  59. "The happiness gap", Information Times, December 2003, pp. 50-8.
  60. "Using the market method to restrict private cars", Oriental Morning Post, 15 March 2004, p.15.
  61. "On the strategy to avoid economic contraction", Oriental Morning Post, 10 May 2004, p.15.
  62. "How does the Chinese economy affects the world?", 21st Century Business Herald, 17 June 2004.
  63. "Private cars: Why China should learn from Singpaore and avoid the horrible outcome of Bangkok?" Harvard China Review, Spring 2004, pp. 52-5.
  64. "In memory of Professor Xiaokai Yang", China & World Economy, 2004, 12(6): 118-22.
  65. "How to use economic analysis properly?" Teahouse for Economists, Vol.17, 2004, pp.4-7.
  66. "RMB should appreciate further", Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly, Nov. 2005, pp.42-4.
  67. "Should big cities restrict immigrants? On increasing returns and the E-F conflict", Teahouse for Economists, Vol.19, 2005, pp.4-8.
  68. "Fundamental Problems of Social Choice and the Paradox of Interpersonally Comparable Cardinal Utility", The Journal of Peking University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), No.5, 2005, pp.159-165.
  69. "A review of Institutional Economics: A Chat by Three Scholars", Teahouse for Economists, Vol.22, 2006, pp. 37-40.
  70. "The public interest is the happiness of the people", Guangzhou Daily, 4 Oct. 2006.
  71. A book review on Frey & Stutzer, Happiness and Economics:How the Economy and Institutions Affect Well-Being, In Caijing (leading economics/finance non-refereed periodical in China), Oct. 2006.
  72. "Why growth fails to increase happiness", Caijing (leading economics/finance non-refereed periodical in China), Oct. 2006.
  73. "Let development increase happiness", Caijing (leading economics/finance non-refereed periodical in China), Nov. 2006.
  74. "Jumping down into hell or walking up to heaven?" Teahouse for Economists, Issue 27 (Feb. 2007), pp.4-7.
  75. Heling Shi & Yew-Kwang Ng,"The effects of the information industry on economic development", in Chinese Textbook for Practical Commerce, edited by Wang Youmin & Ni Mingliang, Beijing: China Commerce and Trade Press, 2007, pp.34-5. ISBN: 978-7-100-05452-2.