Alwyn Young is a professor of

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the

London School of Economics and Political Science The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public university, public research university in London, England, and a member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the University ...

(LSE). He held a named chair at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

and was on the faculty at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

and the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

before joining the LSE faculty. A graduate of

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, he holds an MA in law and diplomacy and a PhD in international relations, both from the

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations. As of 2017, the student bo ...

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

, and a PhD in economics from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. 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 Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

as well as the impact of HIV-Aids on

GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performance o ...

figures

Selected publications

*"The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations". ''

Quarterly Journal of Economics ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Department of Economics. Its current editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan ...

'' 120 (May 2005): 243–266. PDF. Appendix. *"Gold into Base Metals: Productivity Growth in the People’s Republic of China during the Reform Period". ''

Journal of Political Economy The ''Journal of Political Economy'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. Established by James Laurence Laughlin in 1892, it covers both theoretical and empirical economics. In the past, the ...

'' 111 (December 2003): 1220–1261. *"The Razor’s Edge: Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People’s Republic of China". ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 115 (November 2000): 1091–1135. Data. *“Growth without Scale Effects". ''Journal of Political Economy'' 106 (February 1998): 41–63. JSTOR. *"The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience". ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 110 (August 1995): 641–680. JSTOR. *"Lessons from the East Asian NICs: A Contrarian View.” ''

European Economic Review The ''European Economic Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in economics. The journal was established in 1969 and the editors-in-chief are Evi Pappa (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), David K. Levine (Royal Holloway U ...

'' 38 (1994): 964–973. *"Substitution and Complementarity in Endogenous Innovation.” ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 108 (August 1993): 775–807. JSTOR. *"Invention and Bounded Learning by Doing". ''Journal of Political Economy'' 101 (June 1993): 443–472. JSTOR. *"A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore". In ''NBER, Macroeconomics Annual'' 1992.

Cambridge, MA Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 U.S. census was 118, ...

MIT Press The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press publishes a number of academic journals and has been a pioneer in the Open Ac ...

, 1992. PDF. *"Learning by Doing and the Dynamic Effects of International Trade". ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 106 (May 1991): 369–405. JSTOR.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Economics educators University of Chicago faculty Cornell University alumni The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni MIT Sloan School of Management faculty Academics of the London School of Economics {{economist-stub

Selected publications

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