About the author
Cao Qian is an associate professor and master's supervisor in the Department of Health Insurance at Southeast University, with research interests in health economics and health policy, and social security. Publicly available personal information about him is limited, and the existing details mainly concern his academic position and his translations. As a translator of books in finance and economics, he has translated works including The Money Illusion, The Vices of Economists, Risky Business: The Economics of Insurance, Health Economics, and Microeconomic Theory, covering areas such as monetary theory, economic methodology, insurance economics, and microeconomic theory. His translations are intended for both professional readers and general readers interested in economic issues, helping to introduce foreign economic thought to Chinese audiences and echoing his research background in health economics and social security policy.
Written (3)
Rating 4.1★ The Risk Business: Insurance Economics 利兰·埃纳夫 / Amy Finkelstein / 雷·菲斯曼 / 曹乾 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026 Economics tells us that insurance markets are doomed to collapse in a spiral of adverse selection—yet in reality the insurance industry is enormous. T… Rating 3.8★ The Bad Habits of Economists 迪尔德丽·N.麦克洛斯基 / 曹乾 / 吴小康 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 Deirdre N. McCloskey argues that the vices of modernism stem from pride and the resistance to uncertainty. When they spread into economics, they becom… Rating 4.5★ New Citizen Discourse: The Money Illusion 欧文·费雪 / 曹乾 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022 Feeling like the cost of living keeps climbing, and a raise still isn't enough? That means you're suffering from the money illusion. The money illusio…Publishers
Guangxi Normal University Press