Dwight H. Perkins (economist)

Dwight Heald Perkins (born 1934) is an American academic, economist, sinologist and professor at Harvard University.

Early life

Perkins earned an undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 1956. After two years military service in the US Navy, Perkins resumed his studies at Harvard. He earned a MA in economics in 1961 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1964. His doctoral thesis was "Price Formation in Communist China".^[1]

Academic career

Perkins' teaching career at Harvard began when he was still a graduate student, and continued uninterrupted through 1966 when he became a research and emeritus professor.^[1]

In 1975-1976, Perkins served as acting director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.^[2] In 1977 he became chairman of the Department of Economics of Harvard University and from 1980 through 1995 he served as director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and later was also director of Harvard University's Asia Center (ref Who's Who in America,1994, p. 2684, "cv").

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Dwight H. Perkins, the economist, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100 works in 250+ publications in 7 languages and 6,900+ library holdings.^[3]

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• Market Control and Planning in Communist China (1966)
• China, Asia's Next Economic Giant (1986)
• Agricultural Development in China, 1368-1968 (1969)
• China's Modern Economy in Hhistorical Perspective: sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (1975)
• Rural Development in China (1984)
• Reforming Economic Systems in Developing Countries (1991)
• The Economics of Development(1st edition 1983, 7th edition 2013)
• East Asian Development: Foundations and Strategies(2013)
• The Economic Transformation of China. World Scientific Publishing. 2015.

Notes

1. Harvard University, Dwight Heald Perkins CV
2. Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, p. 54.
3. WorldCat Identities: Hofheinz, Roy 1935-

References

• Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955-2005. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780976798002; OCLC 64140358