Alwyn Young

Alwyn Young is a professor of economics and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He held a named chair at the University of Chicago and was on the faculty at Boston University and the MIT Sloan School of Management before joining the LSE faculty. A graduate of Cornell University, he holds an MA in law and diplomacy and a PhD in international relations, both from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. Young has taught courses in introductory economics at the LSE to first-year undergraduates, and topics in modern economic growth as a part of advanced macroeconomics course at postgraduate level.

Well known academic papers by Alwyn Young include The tyranny of numbers: confronting the statistical realities of the East Asian growth experience and A tale of two cities: factor accumulation and technical change in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Professor Young's most recent research has focussed on growth in the African continent as well as the impact of HIV-Aids on GDP figures

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References

  1. ↑ "Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics". Archived from the original on 2011-03-20. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  2. ↑ Young, Alwyn (August 1995). "The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience" (PDF). The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 110 (3): 641–680. doi:10.2307/2946695. JSTOR 2946695. S2CID 115135123.
  3. ↑ Young, Alwyn (1992). "A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore". NBER Macroeconomics Annual. 7. University of Chicago Press: 13–54. doi:10.2307/3584993. JSTOR 3584993.
  4. ↑ Young, Alwyn (September 2009), The African Growth Miracle (PDF), London School of Economics, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-20, retrieved 2013-03-06