William Wirt Lockwood (1906–1978) was an American academic who was Research Secretary (1935–1940) and Executive Secretary (1941–1943) at the

Institute of Pacific Relations The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was an international NGO established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific Rim. The International Secretariat, the center of most IPR activity ov ...

. In 1954, he published ''The Economic Development of Japan'', which detailed the transformation of Japan from an agrarian society to one of the world's leading industrial powers. He was president of the

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in 1963. He graduated from

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and

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Selected publications

Lockwood, W. W. (1954). The economic development of Japan: Growth and structural change, 1868–1938. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.Reubens, E. P., (1955). Review of The Economic Development of Japan: Growth and Structural Change, 1868–1938. by Lockwood, W. W. ''Political Science Quarterly'', December, 70, 4, 630–632.

Other sources

Princeton University:The William W. Lockwood Papers: William W. Lockwood 1919–1977 (The archive includes correspondence, minutes, conference reports, records of research projects, and publications documenting the American Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lockwood, William W. 1906 births 1978 deaths Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies American development economists DePauw University alumni Harvard University alumni