In May 1979, Justin Yifu Lin—a 26-year-old company commander in the army of the Republic of china and a recent graduate of the MBA program at National Chengchi University—defected from Taiwan to mainland china by swimming across the straits to Fujian Province, leaving behind his pregnant wife and three-year-old child. Seven years later, after obtaining a Master's degree in Marxist political economy from Peking University, he became one of the first citizens of the People's Republic of China to receive a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Reunited with his family, and returning to China, he became a professor of economics at Peking University and founded the Beijing-based China Center for Economic Research. In June 2008, he became the chief economist of the World Bank, the first ever from a developing country. In a conversation with World Policy Journal editor David A. Andelman and managing editor Justin...
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March 01 2011
Beyond Keynes: A Conversation with Justin Yifu Lin
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 35–40.
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Beyond Keynes: A Conversation with Justin Yifu Lin. World Policy Journal 1 March 2011; 28 (1): 35–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277511402788
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