Barry Naughton
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Barry J. Naughton | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | University of Washington (BA), Yale University (MA, PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Economist, professor |
Employer | UCSD |
Barry J. Naughton is the So Kwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. =He specializes in the modern Chinese economy and is a recognized expert in the field. His 1995 book "Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993" won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. He stated that the Chinese economic reform was accomplished without a grand vision. Rather, it was the result of a mix between laissez-faire and experimentation with business incentives by the government.
Education
He received his Ph.D. in Economics and M.A. in International Relations from Yale University in 1986 and 1979 respectively, and a B.A., Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Washington in 1975.[1]
Analysis
In 1988 and 1991, Naughton published the first articles of Western scholarship addressing China's Third Front campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in the Country's interior.[2]: 17 Relatively few other Western historians have addressed the Third Front in detail and those that do generally cite Naughton extensively.[2]: 17
In Naughton's view, China's use of the nomenklatura system of personnel management for Communist Party cadre is a core institution reinforcing national unity.[3]: 23
Naughton concludes that China's process of rural collectivization proceeded smoothly in part because, unlike the Soviet experience, a network of state institutions already existed in the countryside.[4]
Select books
- The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, 2007
- The Chinese Economy: Adaption and Growth, second edition of The Chinese Economy, 2018
- China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future, (with Thomas Buoye, Kirk Denton, and Bruce Dickson), 2002.
- Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993, 1995.
- Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era, (with Dali L. Yang), 2004.
- Reforming Asian Socialism: The Growth of Market Institutions, (with John McMillan), 1996.
- Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China, (with Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, and Elizabeth J. Perry), 1995.
- The China Circle: Economics and Electronics in the Prc, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1997.
- China's financial reform: Achievements and challenges, 1998.
- Intellectual property rights in China: Evolving business and legal frameworks, 1999.
- State investment in post-Mao China: The decline of central control, 1983.
References
- ^ "Barry Naughton". gps.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
- ^ a b Meyskens, Covell F. (2020). Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108784788. ISBN 978-1-108-78478-8. OCLC 1145096137. S2CID 218936313.
- ^ Heilmann, Sebastian (2018). Red Swan: How Unorthodox Policy-Making Facilitated China’s Rise. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. ISBN 978-962-996-827-4.
- ^ Lin, Chun (2006). The transformation of Chinese socialism. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-8223-3785-0. OCLC 63178961.