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After two years military service in the United States Navy, Perkins resumed his studies at Harvard. He earned a Master of Arts in economics in 1961 and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics in 1964.
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Agricultural Development in China explains how China’s farm economy historically responded to the demands of a rising population. Dwight H. Perkins begins in the year A.D. 1368, the founding date of the Ming dynasty. More importantly, it marked the end of nearly two centuries of violent destruction and loss of life primarily connected with the rise and fall of the Mongols. The period beginning with the fourteenth century was also one in which there were no obvious or dramatic changes in farming techniques or in rural institutions. The rise in population and hence in the number of farmers made possible the rise in farm output through increased double cropping, extending irrigation systems, and much else. Issues explored in this book include the role of urbanization and long distance trade in allowing farmers in a few regions to specialize in crops most suitable to their particular region. Backing up this analysis of agricultural development is a careful examination of the quality of Chinese historical data. This classic volume, now available in a paperback edition, includes a new introduction assessing the continuing importance of this work to understanding the Chinese economy. It will be invaluable for a new generation of economists, historians, and Asian studies specialists and is part of Transaction’s Asian Studies series.
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In the first study in depth of this subject by an economist, the author focuses on a major problem―common to all planned economies―that has confronted the Chinese Communists: whether to centralize all controls in the hands of the planners, or to allow factory and farm managers some degree of autonomy regulated only by the indirect pressures of the market. Because the finding of a satisfactory solution has been of highest importance to Peking, this study of the issue throws light on the shifts and turns of Chinese economic policy in general and on the underlying nature and significance of the broad trends in China's economy and society since 1949.
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After two years military service in the United States Navy, Perkins resumed his studies at Harvard. He earned a Master of Arts in economics in 1961 and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics in 1964.
Perkins earned an undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 1956. His doctoral thesis was "Price Formation in Communist China". Perkins" teaching career at Harvard began when he was still a graduate student, and continued uninterrupted through 1966 when he became a research and emeritus professor
In 1975-1976, Perkins served as acting director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.
In 1977 he became chairman of the Department of Economics of Harvard University and from 1980 through 1995 he served as director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and later was also director of Harvard University"s Asia Center (ref Who"s Who in America,1994, p 2684, "cv").
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( Agricultural Development in China explains how China’s ...)
( A dynamic revision of the most modern development econo...)
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