Development and Transition: Idea, Strategy and Viability

Newly appointed World Bank Chief Economist, Justin Lin will speak at USC.

Justin Lin has long been an influential economist in China. He is professor of economics at Beijing University and created the university’s China Center for Economic Research. Justin Lin is a member of the USC U.S.-China Institute's Board of Scholars. Lin’s research has led him to advocate critically important reform policies, first in agriculture, but also in restructuring state enterprises and in fiscal management. He has twice won China’s top economics honor, the Sun Yefang Prize. He is the author of a number of books, including Institutions, Technology, and Agricultural Development in China (1993), The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform (revised ed., 1999), Sufficient Information and State Enterprise Reform in China (1999). Lin has lectured all over the world, and delivered the Alfred Marshall Lectures at Cambridge University last fall. He spoke on “Development and Transition: Idea, Strategy and Viability.” (The Chinese text is available: 1, 2, and 3.)

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Click here to download a copy of Professor Lin's Marshall Lectures, the foundation of his USC April 8, 2008 lecture.