Alwyn Young
Alwyn Young is a professor of economics and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He held a named chair at the University of Chicago and was on the faculty at Boston University and the MIT Sloan School of Management before joining the LSE faculty.[1] A graduate of Cornell University, he holds an MA in law and diplomacy and a PhD in international relations, both from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. Young teaches introductory economics at the LSE to first year undergraduates(EC102) and topics in modern economic growth as a part of advanced macroeconomics course (EC413) at postgraduate level.
Well known academic papers by Alwyn Young include The tyranny of numbers: confronting the statistical realities of the East Asian growth experience[2] and A tale of two cities: factor accumulation and technical change in Hong Kong and Singapore[3].
Professor Young's most recent research has focussed on growth in the African continent[4] as well as the impact of HIV-Aids on GDP figures
Selected Publications
- The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (May 2005): 243-266. PDF. Appendix.
- “Gold into Base Metals: Productivity Growth in the People’s Republic of China during the Reform Period.” Journal of Political Economy 111 (December 2003): 1220-1261.
- “The Razor’s Edge: Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People’s Republic of China.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (November 2000): 1091-1135. Data.
- “Growth without Scale Effects.” Journal of Political Economy 106 (February 1998): 41-63. JSTOR.
- “The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (August 1995): 641-680. JSTOR.
- “Lessons from the East Asian NICs: A Contrarian View.” European Economic Review 38 (1994): 964-973.
- Substitution and Complementarity in Endogenous Innovation.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (August 1993): 775-807. JSTOR.
- “Invention and Bounded Learning by Doing.” Journal of Political Economy 101 (June 1993): 443-472. JSTOR.
- “A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore.” In NBER, Macroeconomics Annual 1992. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. PDF.
- “Learning by Doing and the Dynamic Effects of International Trade.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (May 1991): 369-405. JSTOR.
References
- ↑ "Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics".
- ↑ Young, Alwyn (August 1995). "The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 110 (3): 641–680. doi:10.2307/2946695. JSTOR 2946695.
- ↑ Young, Alwyn (1992). "A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore". NBER Macroeconomics Annual. University of Chicago Press. 7: 13–54. doi:10.2307/3584993. JSTOR 3584993.
- ↑ Young, Alwyn (September 2009), The African Growth Miracle (PDF), London School of Economics