Dwight Perkins

Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy
Kennedy School
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Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Previous positions at Harvard include Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, Associate Director of the East Asian (now Fairbank) Research Center, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development. Perkins has authored, coauthored, or edited 19 books and numerous articles on economic history and economic development, with special references to the economies of East and Southeast Asia. Topics include the transition from central planning to the market, long-term agricultural development, industry policy, the underlying sources of growth in East Asia, and the role of economic and legal institutions in East Asian growth. He has served as an advisor or consultant to the governments of Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. He has also been a long-term consultant to the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and various U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Perkins is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He received his BA from Cornell and his MA and PhD in economics from Harvard.

 

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Research

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Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Perkins, Dwight H. "China's Soft Power." Harvard International Review 29.3 (Fall 2007): 82-83.
    • Perkins, Dwight H. "East Asian Economic Growth and its Implications for Regional Security." Asia-Pacific Review 14.1 (May 2007): 44-53.
    • Perkins, Dwight H. "The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China." Journal of Economic History 67.1 (March 2007): 242-243.
  • Book Chapters
    • Yusuf, Shahid, Kaoru Nabeshima, and Dwight H. Perkins. “China and India Reshape Global Industrial Geography." Dancing with Giants: China, India and the Global Economy. Ed. L. Alan Winters and Shahid Yusuf. World Bank Publishers, 2007, 35-66.
  • Books
    • Yusuf, Shahid, Dwight H. Perkins, and Kaoru Nabeshima. Under New Ownership: Privatizing China’s State-Owned Enterprises. Stanford University Press, 2006.
    • Perkins, Dwight H. The Challenges of China's Growth, Paperback Edition. AEI Press, 2007.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Perkins, Dwight H. "The Challenges of China's Growth." 2006 Henry Wendt Distinguished Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute, May 9, 2006.