Xie's Works

Professor Xie publishes prolifically in Chinese. Two of his most significant works are A New Treatise of Macroeconomics and The Road to Truth: Rebuilding the Foundation of Economics¹⁾, which focus on macroeconomics and microeconomics respectively. A New Treatise of Macroeconomics is the first one of his works that has been translated into English.

A New Treatise of Macroeconomics was firstly publised in October 2021 by China Financial & Economics Publishing House. Its Douban's rating is at 9.2 the highest among his others books.

This is a general economics book introducing macroeconomics. Structured the same as mainstream economics textbooks, it covers the core principles in a systematic and accessible way. Despite its name, the book implies that microeconomics subsumes macroeconomics, after Professor Xie rebuilds the framework of macroeconomics.

Its English translation, Macroeconomics Has No Clothes—A New Treatise of Macroeconomics, is going to be published soon.

The Road to Truth—Rebuilding the Foundation of Economics was firstly published in November 2019 however printed in May 2024 by Liaoning People's Publishing House. Xie has been teaching economics independently since 2015, after being dismissed from his academic position for speaking candidly and defending views he believed to be true. By 2019, he had made a series of breakthroughs that resolved longstanding inconsistencies in mainstream economics. Those insights laid the foundation for the ideas presented in this book.

“I don't care who writes a nation's laws, if I can write a nation’s textbooks²⁾.”

Professor Xie has taken that conviction to heart. He wrote this economics textbook to offer an alternative to mainstream texts, which, in his view, contain important theoretical inconsistencies. Drawing on years of teaching and deliberation, he presents a more coherent framework for understanding economics and the world around us.

Spicy Hot Pot Economics—Twenty One General Lessons was published in March 2022 by China Development Press. This book is an abridged version of the Xie’s earlier work, The Road to Truth, with more advanced and technical sections removed to create a clear and accessible introduction for younger students and general readers.

The Wealth Code In the New Era examines the information industry through the lens of economics. Applying fundamental economic principles, Xie explains many of the defining features of the information age and sheds light on trends such as cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the rise of online video platforms. The book’s core insight is

Each era is defined by its own technologies, and those technologies shape the logic of wealth creation.