Dwight H. Perkins (economist)

This article is about the American economist. For the architect, see Dwight H. Perkins (architect).

Dwight Heald Perkins (born 1934) is an American academic, economist, sinologist and professor at Harvard University.

Early life

Perkins earned an undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 1956. After two years military service in the US Navy, Perkins resumed his studies at Harvard. He earned a MA in economics in 1961 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1964. His doctoral thesis was "Price Formation in Communist China".^[1]

Academic career

Perkins' teaching career at Harvard begain when he was still a graduate student, and it has continued uninterrupted through the present.^[1]

In 1975-1976, Perkins served as acting director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.^[2]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Dwight H. Perkins, the economist, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100 works in 250+ publications in 7 languages and 6,900+ library holdings.^[3]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• Market Control and Planning in Communist China (1966)
• China, Asia's Next Economic Giant (1986)
• Agricultural Development in China, 1368-1968 (1969)
• China's Modern Economy in Hhistorical Perspective: sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (1975)
• Rural Development in China (1984)
• Reforming Economic Systems in Developing Countries (1991)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Harvard University, Dwight Heald Perkins CV
2. ^ Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, p. 54.
3. ^ WorldCat Identities: Hofheinz, Roy 1935-

References

• Suleski, Ronald Stanley. (2005). The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University: a Fifty Year History, 1955-2005. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 097679800X/13-ISBN 9780976798002; OCLC 64140358

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Name	Perkins, Dwight H.
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Short description	academic, economist, sinologist
Date of birth	1934
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