Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 9: Masters (Part 1)
Subtitle of this chapter: The rest of my life...well, it’s too late to wear it!
Our Master Yuan is not going to get involved in the production and filming of "Orphan of Famine". After all, in today's era of large-scale industry, even if he is a time traveler, he cannot do everything.
Professional matters should be left to professionals.
Besides, talking about money hurts feelings. Making budgets and signing contracts would offend people, and he didn't want to ruin his relationship with the film master, as they would continue to work together in the future. And he was a man with a private lawyer, so he could just let Mr. John McCall come forward.
So, they then talked about some issues regarding the filming of the script and finished the lunch quite happily.
After dinner, Mr. David Griffith could not sit still. For a film artist like him, it would be a crime not to seize the time to prepare for filming with such an excellent script in front of him. He immediately said goodbye and returned to the hotel with the script.
Just when Yuan Yan was about to improve Sino-US relations with Miss Gish, Miss Enuka walked in and said, "Neo, the printing factory has sent your sample book over."
"My sample book..." Master Yuan was excited. His book "Socialism" was finally printed.
Now he is a major sponsor of NYU and will likely become an honorary director in the future. He is worried about not being able to find a recommender to skip a grade and apply for a doctorate. Owen Adams, Julian Chandler and James Conant took the initiative to become his recommenders.
His doctoral thesis was submitted last Friday. In fact, he has already got the Ph.D. and now he just needs to go through the formalities.
Well, even if he didn't plagiarize Mises's Socialism and wrote something else, his doctorate would not be a big problem. But he was still very careful.
At that time, most universities in the United States required each doctoral candidate to submit 100 copies of the thesis to the school authorities. Our Master Yuan printed 1,000 copies at once, and the remaining 900 copies were the stepping stone, vowing to knock on all economists in the world.
His doctoral thesis must be made known to the whole world in a high-profile manner, so as to avoid being as unclear as the "Dao Ke Tuo Hu" case, which could become a public case in the historical community decades later.
No matter how his disciples and historians, especially those in Taiwan, tried to cover up and brag for him, Hu Shih did not receive his Ph.D. until 1927, ten years after he wrote his doctoral dissertation. From this perspective, Dr. Hu is just a liar, just like a certain "Dr. Fang".
In fact, this matter had already caused a sensation in America in 1919.
On September 7, 1919, more than two years after Hu Shi passed the final doctoral examination and returned to China, Zhu Jingnong, a good friend of Hu Shi who was still studying in the United States at that time, wrote to him about this matter: "Now I have to tell you something boring... a gentleman who was your 'friend in the past, but now your enemy' said nonsense... 'Old Hu pretended to be a doctor', saying 'Old Hu did not pass the oral examination',... Naturally, none of your friends believed this statement. However, you don't have many friends, and now 'there are many mouths and I am few', and I can't argue. I can only ask you to print the paper quickly, so that the rumor will have no way to spread.. "
Zhu Jingnong and other friends repeatedly urged Hu Shi to take self-defense measures and publish his doctoral thesis immediately, but Dr. Hu never took action. It was not because he was a man of high moral character who did not care about the slander, but because he had not obtained a doctoral degree at that time.
Our Master Yuan is different. Not only is he a genuine "Master who can be trusted with the truth", but he is also determined to make his Ph.D. known to everyone so that no one can find fault with him in the future.
This is closely related to his life. His first system task "Knowledge changes destiny, education increases status" has not been completed yet.
"Ann, ask the workers to deliver the books to the study. Prepare the envelopes and stationery . I'm going to get down to work..."
Since it had to be publicized, it had to be publicized to the economics community all over the world. Yuan Yanshu's next decision was to write letters and send books to the masters of economics.
In fact, he always felt that he traveled through time a little too late, and of course his great-great-uncle was a little disappointing. Because of these two reasons, he missed a master-level figure.
Carl Menger, the 81-year-old founder of the Austrian School and one of the founders of modern marginal utility theory, had just passed away two days ago, on February 26, 1921.
Carl Menger was born in Galicia (then Austrian territory, now Poland) in 1840. His life experience was not complicated. He was the kind of great scholar who simply became an official after excelling in his studies and then returned to academia.
In 1867 he received a doctorate in law from the University of Kraków. After graduation, he became a journalist writing economic analysis, and a few years later he joined the press department of the Austrian Chancellery.
In 1873, Menger was promoted to "Outstanding Professor" of the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna, which made him resolutely abandon politics and enroll. In 1876, he served as a tutor to the Austrian Crown Prince and accompanied the 18-year-old Crown Prince on a tour of Europe. After returning to his country in 1879, he was appointed as a professor of political economy at the University of Vienna, and from then on he was content with a quiet academic life until his death two days ago.
When Yuan Hongjian thought about his development in economics, he felt angry. His great-great-uncle was simply wasting his life and ruining this great era.
You said you studied political economy, why can't you build relationships with these masters while they are still alive? As long as I have a few handwritten letters from the masters, the kind that are specifically written with polite words, you... well, I can spread the word that these masters have a favorable impression of me.
In fact, when he found out that he was destined to become a "reactionary clique" of neoclassical liberalism, he immediately wrote a "letter of allegiance" to Master Menger, saying how much he admired the master, how he was influenced by the marginal utility theory, and how he became a neoclassical liberal.
Unfortunately, it was already the end of 1920, and Master Menger, who was seriously ill, probably had no energy to read the letter when he received it.
An extremely important master of economics just passed by our Master Yuan. And Master Yuan lost the blessing of an important person. He was not thick-skinned enough to casually claim to be a student of Menger, so he had to be his spiritual disciple.
It has to be said that this is a big blow to his future academic status.
