Guest Lecture by Professor Alice Amsden

Professor Alice H. Amsden will be visiting CBS and we are happy to announce that she will give a public lecture with the title:

"Does Asia's success lie before or after World War II? Ambiguity makes the day"

Major reasons for greater economic development in Asia compared with Latin America arise in the pre-World War II period. A key issue is the ownership of private firms, foreign (FOEs) versus national (POEs). In mid-tech and mature high-tech industries, the best of FOEs have tended to be bureaucratic whereas the best of POEs have tended to be entrepreneurial. If resource-rich African countries want to develop, they should work hard at reverse brain drain, use OPEC as a role model, and start a common-ground, where FOEs provide the high- tech services and African countries take over the production and distribution of their raw materials.

ALICE AMSDEN, Barton L Weller Professor of Political Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was chosen in 2002 as one of the Top 50 Visionaries by Scientific American Magazine “from the worlds of research, industry and politics whose recent accomplishments point towards a brighter future.”

Amsden’s new book, Escape from Empire, was the subject of an hour long radio broadcast on PRI, Open Source, and Amsden was interviewed on Pacifica Radio (Los Angeles) and NPR in Miami and Phoenix. According to the Chairman of China’s largest commercial bank, China Construction Bank, ”Amsden reveals with sparkle and insight how much developing countries can achieve when allowed to think for themselves.” Her book is being published in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

Amsden has been a consultant on industrial development for the UN, World Bank, OECD and numerous governments, including Russia, China and Korea. She previously taught at Harvard Business School and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She has contributed pieces to The New York Times, The Nation, World Policy Journal, Technology Review, Milken Institute Review, Mother Jones, and other popular newspapers and magazines.

Amsden was born in New York City. She received her bachelor's degree from Cornell and her master's and Ph.D. degrees from the London School of Economics.

Attendance

Free of charge, but confirmation of attendance would be highly appreciated. If possible, please mail to arc.int@cbs.dk

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