About Us

The way you view the world shapes the world you see.

Sheer Economics exists to offer a concise yet powerful framework for understanding the forces that shape our lives.

Economics, at its best, should provide such a framework. It should help us make sense of markets, policies, and human behavior, and enable us to make better decisions. Yet much of mainstream economics is filled with inconsistent principles and convoluted models that often mislead.

As the distinguished economist Joan Robinson observed:

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Professor Xie Zuoshi (rhymes with Sheer Zeus) has developed a coherent and intellectually rigorous framework for understanding economics. His work restores economics to common sense, revealing the underlying forces that shape everyday lifes and society.

His insights are profound, yet accessible. Readers do not need formal training in economics to benefit from them.

However, much of Professor Xie’s work remains available only in Chinese and is scattered across books, essays, interviews, videos, and social media posts. This site was created to bridge that gap.

Our mission is to make Professor Xie’s thought accessible to the English-speaking world through carefully prepared translations, transcripts, commentary, and educational resources.

We publish:

• English translations of selected works by Professor Xie, including essays, articles, and multimedia content;
• Original articles and analysis that explain and expand upon his ideas; and
• Premium resources for readers who wish to explore the framework in greater depth.

Our goal is not merely to translate words, but to communicate a way of thinking—one that helps readers better understand economic dynamics, social phenomena, and the long-term consequences of important decisions.

We believe that a sound theoretical framework sharpens judgment, reduces costly mistakes. If Professor Xie’s work helps more people see the world more clearly, this project will have fulfilled its purpose.

Macroeconomics is in trouble — and most people sense it, even if they can't say why. Growth forecasts disappoint. Policies that promise relief deliver stagnation. Economists disagree not just on solutions but on the most basic questions. The problem runs deeper than bad policy: it runs to the foundations.

Many of the inconsistencies in macroeconomics trace back to unresolved problems in microeconomics — the very ground it stands on. When the foundation is shaky, everything built on top of it shifts. Well-intentioned policies, constructed on flawed theory, produce outcomes their architects never intended. The confusion is not incidental. It is structural.

Professor Xie Zuoshi has spent his career addressing that structural problem. His theories did not emerge from the shelter of academic institutions — they were tested in the open market, refined by students who paid out of their own pockets and demanded clarity in return, and held to a standard that peer review rarely imposes: they had to actually make sense to ordinary people. The result is not merely a heterodox challenge to mainstream economics. It is a restoration of the foundations that mainstream economics lost.

One illustration: a decade ago, Professor Xie explained why China had enjoyed sustained high economic growth while Western economies stagnated — an explanation grounded in property rights, incentive structures, and trade, not political ideology. We have yet to find a clearer or more compelling account of that divergence.

His work deserves to be known beyond China. That is why this site exists.

All ideas and insights presented on this site are directly based on Professor Xie’s work and the original authors’ contributions. To ensure clarity and readability for an English-speaking audience, AI tools have been used only for grammar correction, sentence structure refinement, and improving idiomatic expression. The intellectual content, analysis, and conceptual integrity remain fully authentic and unchanged.