Chen, Weikai. "Population Shrinkage as a Crisis of Time: Surplus Time, Aging, and Social Reproduction in China." Social Research: An International Quarterly, 2026, forthcoming.
Chen, Weikai, Ning Gao, and Kun Zhu. "Marx's Theory of Extra Surplus Value: Reconstruction and Implications for Uneven Development." Review of Radical Political Economics, forthcoming.
Chen, Weikai, and Kun Zhu. "Theoretical Reconstruction and Practical Implications of the Reduction of Complex Labor from the Perspective of Technical Change." Journal of Renmin University of China 40, no. 2 (2026). (in Chinese) Link
Chen, Weikai, Ningzhi He, and Hao Qi. "The Evolving Role of State-Owned Enterprises in China's Economic Stabilization." Science & Society 89, no. 4 (2025): 491-513. https://doi.org/10.1177/00368237251334301
Chen, Weikai, and Lingxi Liu. "The Law of Value and Involutionary Prices." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 31, 2024. (in Chinese) (pdf)
Chen, Weikai. "Analytical Political Economy: The Revival of Analytical Marxism in Economics." Foreign Theoretical Trends, no. 6, 2024. (in Chinese)
Chen, Weikai, and Ning Gao. "Marx's Theory of Extra Surplus Value: A Review and Reconstruction." China Review of Political Economy 15, no. 6, 2024. (in Chinese)
Chen, Weikai. "Technical Change, Income Distribution, and Profitability: Marx's Law Revisited." Political Economy Quarterly 2, no. 4 (2023): 180-194. (pdf)
Chen, Weikai. "The Return of Production Prices to Values in a Dual-Channel Price Model." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 15, 2019. (in Chinese) (pdf)
Chen, Shu-Heng, Connie Houning Wang, and Weikai Chen. "Matching Impacts of School Admission Mechanisms: An Agent-Based Approach." Eastern Economic Journal 43, no. 2 (2017): 217-241. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41302-016-0073-y
Domestic demand complexity and wage-led growth, with Hao Qi, Xinyuan Gao, and Biao Huang.
Population structure and the production and use of surplus: revisiting the demographic dividend.
Technological monopoly and income distribution in a Classical-Marxian framework, with Biao Huang.
Persistent exploitation with intertemporal reproducible solution in pre-industrial economies, with Naoki Yoshihara, UMass Amherst Economics Working Paper, 2019-10.
Technical change, income distribution, and profitability in multisector linear economies, UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers, 273.
Chen, Weikai, Kun Zhu, and Ning Gao, trans. "The Limits of Supply Chain Resilience." Foreign Theoretical Trends, no. 6, 2023. (in Chinese)
Chen, Weikai, and Lu Men. "Directions for Reforming the Distribution System of State-Owned Enterprises." Enterprise Reform and Development, no. 5, 2023. (in Chinese)
Department seminar, Kyungpook National University, April 28, 2023.
Visiting scholar, Santa Fe Institute, January-February 2023.
Research assistant, Santa Fe Institute, 2015-2020, advised by Samuel Bowles.
Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, 2017.
Workshop on Complexity and Economics, Fields Institute, 2016.
New Forms of Contemporary Monopoly Capital and Their Effects, National Social Science Fund Youth Project, 2023.
Mathematical Methods in Marxian Political Economy, Renmin University of China Research Fund, completed.