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PETER SAI-WING HO,
Chair
Associate Professor, Economics
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Stanford
University, 1989
B.Soc.Sci., University
of Hong Kong, 1982
Research:
My
research has largely been related to trade, foreign (direct) investment,
and development. It has a history of analysis aspect, in that I have
re-examined the works of certain classical economists and have advanced
an alternative approach to integrate their trade and foreign investment
analyses that might prove more fruitful for development studies. I have
also been re-examining the works of certain prominent development economists,
especially those who were more sympathetic to trade interventions to
promote development. My aim is to clarify the framework of their development
analyses, reassert these frameworks' prominence in shaping their studies,
and then elucidate the role that trade interventions play within those
frameworks. This could prove to be a useful contrast to the mainstream
approach that exaggerates (in a negative manner) the role played by
trade interventions and then dismisses it as nothing but ‘protectionism',
thereby trivializing an otherwise complex process of development. Based
on this history of analysis aspect, I have extended my research into
an area that is more institutional, viz. assessing the changing environment
for development that is defined by various multilateral trade agreements
negotiated under the auspices of GATT/WTO. The hope is that my non-mainstream
approach to development and trade analysis could enable one to sensibly
caution against the implications of such agreements for Third World
development.
Work in progress and representative
publications of mine include:
Rethinking Theories of Trade and Welfare from Perspectives of
Economic Development, book manuscript being prepared for
Edward
Elgar Publishing, Inc.
“Analyzing and arresting
uneven development: Friedrich List and
Gunnar
Myrdal
compared,” Journal of Economic Issues , vol.
XL,June, 2006,
pp. 359-367.
“Distortions in the trade policy for development debate:
A
re-examination of Friedrich List,” Cambridge Journal
of Economics
, vol. 29, September, 2005, pp. 729-746.
“Myrdal's
backwash and spread effects in classical economics:
Implications
for multilateral trade negotiations,” Journal of
Economic
Issues , vol. XXXVIII, June, 2004, pp. 537-544.
“Multilateral
trade negotiations and the changing prospects for Third
World
development: assessing from a Southern perspective,”
Journal
of Economic Issues, vol. 32, June, 1998, pp. 375-383.
“Foreign trade,”
entry to Kurz and Salvadori (eds.), Elgar
Companion to Classical Economics, Northampton (MA): Edward
Elgar, 1998.
“Technological
gap and uneven accumulation in a classical production model,"
Metroeconomica, vol.48, February, 1997,pp. 147-173
“Rethinking
classical trade analyses within a framework of capitalist
development,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.
20, no. 4, July, 1996, pp. 413-432.
Teaching:
My teaching interests are in the areas of Economic Development and International
Economics. In
recent years I have taught: “International Economics”, “International
Trade: Theories and Policies”, and “Economic Development” (at both intermediate
and seniors' level).
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