Barry J. Naughton is an American economist currently serving as So Kwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the

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Education

He received his Ph.D. in Economics and M.A. in International Relations from

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in 1986 and 1979 respectively, and a B.A., Chinese Language and Literature from the

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in 1975.

Academic career

In 1988 and 1991, Naughton published the first articles of Western scholarship addressing China's Third Front campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in the Country's interior. Relatively few other Western historians have addressed the Third Front in detail and those that do generally cite Naughton extensively. In Naughton's view, China's use of the ''

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'' system of personnel management for Communist Party cadre is a core institution reinforcing national unity. Naughton states that China's process of rural collectivization proceeded smoothly in part because, unlike the Soviet experience, a network of state institutions already existed in the countryside. His 1995 book "Growing Out of the

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: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993" won the

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Memorial Prize. He argues that the Chinese economic reform was accomplished without a grand vision. Rather, it was the result of a mix between

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and experimentation with business incentives by the government. Naughton is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by

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's Center on US-China Relations.

Publications

*'' The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth'', 2007 *''The Chinese Economy: Adaption and Growth'', second edition of ''The Chinese Economy'', 2018 *''China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future'', (with Thomas Buoye, Kirk Denton, and Bruce Dickson), 2002. *''Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993'', 1995. *''Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era'', (with Dali L. Yang), 2004. *''Reforming Asian Socialism: The Growth of Market Institutions'', (with John McMillan), 1996. *''Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China'', (with Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, and Elizabeth J. Perry), 1995. *''The China Circle: Economics and Electronics in the Prc, Taiwan, and Hong Kong'', 1997. *''China's financial reform: Achievements and challenges'', 1998. *''Intellectual property rights in China: Evolving business and legal frameworks'', 1999. *''State investment in post-Mao China: The decline of central control'', 1983.

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Association of Professional Schools of International AffairsSchool of International Relations and Pacific StudiesUniversity of California, San Diego
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