Alwyn Young is a professor of economics and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the
(LSE). He held a named chair at the
University of Chicago
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and was on the faculty at
Boston University
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and the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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before joining the LSE faculty.
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
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at
Tufts University
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, and a PhD in economics from
Columbia University
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. Young has taught courses in introductory economics at the LSE to first-year undergraduates, and topics in modern economic growth as a part of advanced macroeconomics course at postgraduate level.
Well known academic papers by Alwyn Young include ''The tyranny of numbers: confronting the statistical realities of the East Asian growth experience
'' and ''A tale of two cities: factor accumulation and technical change in Hong Kong and Singapore
''.
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
Selected publications
*"The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations". ''
Quarterly Journal of Economics
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'' 120 (May 2005): 243–266. PDF. Appendix.
*"Gold into Base Metals: Productivity Growth in the People’s Republic of China during the Reform Period". ''
Journal of Political Economy
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'' 111 (December 2003): 1220–1261.
*"The Razor’s Edge: Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People’s Republic of China". ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 115 (November 2000): 1091–1135. Data.
*“Growth without Scale Effects". ''Journal of Political Economy'' 106 (February 1998): 41–63. JSTOR.
*"The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience". ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 110 (August 1995): 641–680. JSTOR.
*"Lessons from the East Asian NICs: A Contrarian View.” ''
European Economic Review
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'' 38 (1994): 964–973.
*"Substitution and Complementarity in Endogenous Innovation.” ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 108 (August 1993): 775–807. JSTOR.
*"Invention and Bounded Learning by Doing". ''Journal of Political Economy'' 101 (June 1993): 443–472. JSTOR.
*"A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore". In ''NBER, Macroeconomics Annual'' 1992.
Cambridge, MA
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MIT Press
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History
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, 1992. PDF.
*"Learning by Doing and the Dynamic Effects of International Trade". ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 106 (May 1991): 369–405. JSTOR.
See also
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Exogenous growth model
In a variety of contexts, exogeny or exogeneity () is the fact of an action or object originating externally. It contrasts with endogeneity or endogeny, the fact of being influenced within a system.
Economics
In an economic model, an exogeno ...
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Economics educators
University of Chicago faculty
Cornell University alumni
The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
Academics of the London School of Economics
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