Professor of finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing. Nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
2/2 important American economist who was among the first to understand the implications of excess savings on capital flows and monetary conditions. His "The United States in the Orient" (written mostly in the 1890s) is a book I often re-read.
1/2 This book may be a little specialized for many, but I just finished reading @DaelNorwood's very interesting book on the role trade with China played in the political development of the US. This was a different way of looking at a lot of very familiar topics in US history.
4/8 For those interested in the subject, I just finished re-reading March Egnal's excellent (wonkish) 2009 book on the economic origins of the American Civil War. It makes clear that rather than posit the ideological difference between those who oppose industrial policy...