Alexander Eckstein
Alexander Eckstein was a professor of economics who worked at the University of Michigan.
Eckstein's area of expertise was the Chinese economy. He played a notable role in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and the development of Sino-US diplomacy of the 1970s.
He obtained a B.S. degree, M.S. degree and PhD from University of California. He worked as an economist for the US State Department from 1951 to 1953 before joining Harvard University as a researcher and lecturer. He was professor of international economics at University of Rochester from 1959 to 1961. In 1961, he became professor of economics at University of Michigan.
Selected publications
- 1962, The National Income of Communist China
- 1966, 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