The pace of China’s economic growth since 1978 is unprecedented. The national security strategy of the United States calls for maintaining a durable competitive edge over China.
About the speaker
Nicholas R. Lardy, called “everybody’s guru on China” by the National Journal, is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joined the Institute in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow from 1995 until 2003. He was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 through the spring of 2000, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale University School of Management. He is author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books, including The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reforms in China? (2019), Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China (2014), Sustaining China’s Economic Growth after the Global Financial Crisis (2012), The Future of China’s Exchange Rate Policy (2009), China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities (2008), Debating China’s Exchange Rate Policy (2008), and China: The Balance Sheet—What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (2006). Lardy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the editorial boards of Asia Policy and the China Review
Organizers
- Center for East Asian Studies
- La Follette School of Public Affairs
- Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership
- East Asian Legal Studies Center
Contact
Laurie Dennis, ldennis@wisc.edu