Alexander Eckstein

Alexander Eckstein (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, December 9, 1915 – December 4, 1976, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor of economics who worked at the University of Michigan.^[1]

Eckstein's area of expertise was the Chinese economy.^[2] He played a notable role in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and the development of Sino-US diplomacy (the so-called Ping-pong diplomacy) of the 1970s.^[1]

He obtained a B.S. degree (1939), M.S. degree (1941) and PhD (1952) from University of California.^[1] He worked as an economist for the US State Department from 1951 to 1953 before joining Harvard University as a researcher and lecturer.^[1] He was professor of international economics at University of Rochester from 1959 to 1961. In 1961, he became professor of economics at University of Michigan.^[1]

Selected publications

• 1962, The National Income of Communist China
• 1966, Communist China's Economic Development and Foreign Trade^[2]
• 1975, China's Economic Development: The Interplay of Scarcity and Ideology
• 1977, China's Economic Revolution
• 1977, Comparison of Economic Systems: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches^[3]