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 micro- and macroeconomics at the LSE to first year undergraduates.
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 as well as the impact of HIV-Aids on GDP figures
[edit] References
- ^ "Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics". http://mfi.uchicago.edu/people/young.shtml.
- ^ "Tyranny of Numbers". JSTOR 2946695.
- ^ "A Tale of Two Cities". JSTOR 3584993.
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