Dwight Heald Perkins is an American academic, economist

Economist

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, sinologist and professor at Harvard University

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Early life

Perkins earned an undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 1956. After two years military service in the US Navy, Perkins resumed his studies at Harvard. He earned a MA in economics in 1961 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1964. His doctoral thesis was "Price Formation in Communist China".

Academic career

Perkins' teaching career at Harvard begain when he was still a graduate student, and it has continued uninterrupted through the present.

In 1975-1976, Perkins served as acting director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

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Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Dwight H. Perkins, the economist, OCLC

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encompasses roughly 100 works in 250+ publications in 7 languages and 6,900+ library holdings.

• Market Control and Planning in Communist China (1966)
• China, Asia's Next Economic Giant (1986)
• Agricultural Development in China, 1368-1968 (1969)
• China's Modern Economy in Hhistorical Perspective: sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (1975)
• Rural Development in China (1984)
• Reforming Economic Systems in Developing Countries (1991)