Alexander Eckstein

Alexander Eckstein (Novi Sad 1915–1976) was a professor of economics who worked at the University of Michigan.

Eckstein's area of expertise was the Chinese economy and he played a notable role in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and the development of Sino-US diplomacy (the so-called Ping-pong diplomacy) of the 1970s.[1]

Selected publications
  • 1962, The National Income of Communist China
  • 1960, Communist China's Economic Development and Foreign Trade
  • 1975, China's Economic Development: The Interplay of Scarcity and Ideology
  • 1977, China's Economic Revolution
  • 1977, Comparison of Economic Systems: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

References
  1. Feuerwerker, A., Oksenberg, M., Dernberger, R. and Whiting, A., (1977). Alexander Eckstein 1915-1976. The Journal of Asian Studies, 37(1), p.87.


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