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Symposium & Memorial On October 19, 2012, the Department will host a a day-long Symposium in MIT’s new Media Lab honoring Alice’s academic legacy, followed by a memorial celebration on the morning of October 20. For more information, please email [email protected].
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COMMEMORATION
OCTOBER 19th & 20th, 2012
MIT MEDIA LAB
Alice H. AmsdenBARTON L. WELLER
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AT THE
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY.
Dr. Alice H. Amsden was born in New York City, received her
undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1965, and her
PhD from the London School of Economics in 1971. She began
her career as an economist at the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), and before joining MIT
in 1994, taught at the University of California at Los Angeles,
Barnard College, Harvard Business School, and The New School.
At MIT, she held the Ellen Swallow Richards Institute Chair from
1994 until 1999, when she was named the Weller Professor.
A prolific scholar, Dr. Amsden wrote extensively about the
process of industrialization in emerging economies, particularly
in Asia. Her work frequently emphasized the importance of the
state as a creator of economic growth, and challenged the idea
that globalization had produced generally uniform conditions in
which emerging economies could find a one-size-fits-all path to
prosperity.
Dr. Amsden was a consultant on industrial development for the
UN, World Bank, OECD and numerous governments. In 2009, she
was appointed by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to a three-
year seat on the U.N. Committee on Development Policy, part of
the U.N. Economic and Social Council; the committee provides
advice to the council on a wide range of economic development
issues.
Biography
Alice was chosen in 2002 as one of the Top 50 Visionaries by
Scientific American magazine for her book, The Rise of the Rest:
Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies (OUP,
2001). According to Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics,
“This is a masterful book that challenges the dominant paradigm
of late industrialization.” Most recently, she had been working
on a book entitled, A Rational Revolution: Developing from Role
Models. She contributed pieces to The New York Times, The
Nation, World Policy Journal, Technology Review, Milken Institute
Review, and Mother Jones, as well as numerous other newspapers
and magazines.
Alice is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Myra Strober
and Jay Jackman of Stanford, Calif.; nephew Jason Strober, his
wife, Joanna Strober, and their children, Sarah, Jared and Ari, of
Los Altos Hills, Calif.; niece Elizabeth Strober, her husband, Bryan
Cohen, and their son, Leo Strober Cohen, of Seattle; nephew Rashi
Jackman, his wife Maike Ahrends, and their son, Jasper Ahrends,
of Palo Alto, Calif.; nephew Jason Scott and his wife, Lena Chu, of
Mountain View, Calif.; and niece Tenaya Jackman of Oakland, Calif.
Amsden was previously married to John Amsden and to Takhashi
Hikino.
Key Books
2007
ESCAPE FROM EMPIRE: THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S JOURNEY
THROUGH HEAVEN AND HELL
MIT PRESS
2003
BEYOND LATE DEVELOPMENT: TAIWAN’S UPGRADING POLICIES
MIT PRESS, 2003, (WITH WAN WEN CHU)
2001
THE RISE OF “THE REST”: CHALLENGES TO THE WEST FROM
LATE-INDUSTRIALIZING ECONOMIES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1994
THE MARKET MEETS ITS MATCH: RESTRUCTURING THE
ECONOMIES OF EASTERN EUROPE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS (WITH JACEK KOCHANOWICZ
AND LANCE TAYLOR)
1989
ASIA’S NEXT GIANT: SOUTH KOREA AND LATE
INDUSTRIALIZATION
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1989.
Awards
2002
TOP 50 VISIONARIES
AWARDED BY SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE FOR THE
RISE OF “THE REST”: CHALLENGES TO THE WEST FROM LATE-
INDUSTRIALIZING ECONOMIES
2002
LEONTIEF PRIZE
AWARDED BY TUFTS UNIVERSITY, IN RECOGNITION OF
IMPORTANT “CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC THEORY THAT …
SUPPORT JUST AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES.”
1992
“BEST BOOK IN POLITICAL ECONOMY”
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, FOR ASIA’S
NEXT GIANT: SOUTH KOREA AND LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION
Appointments
1994 - 2012
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES & PLANNING
1989 - 1994
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
PROFESSOR, GRADUATE FACULTY, ECONOMICS
1983 - 1989
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
LECTURER
1977 - 1983
BARNARD COLLEGE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ECONOMICS
1972 - 1977
UCLA
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, ECONOMICS
Education
1971
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
PH.D.
1969
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
M.SC
1965
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Symposium
SESSION I:
8:30 - 8:45
10:15 – 10:40
12:00 – 1:30
0CTOBER 19
10:40 - 12:00
8:45 – 10:15
REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIP
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Dr. Amy Glasmeier, Head and Professor, DUSP
BREAK
LUNCH
LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT
(Moderator) Dr. Kevin Gallagher, Associate Professor
of International Relations, Boston University
Dr. Ben Ross Schneider, Professor of Political Science,
MIT
Dr. Helen Shapiro, Colleges 9 & 10 Provost, Associate
Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
(Moderator) Dr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Associate
Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Dr. José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, School of
International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Dr. Andrés Solimano, Chairman, International Center
for Globalization and Development, CIGLOB
SESSION II:
1:30 – 3:00
3:00 - 3:20
3:20 – 4:50
CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMICS & POLICY
EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
(Moderator) Dr. Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young
Professor of Korean History, East Asian Languages
and Civilizations, Harvard University
Dr. Eun Mee Kim, Dean and Professor, Graduate
School of International Studies, Ewha Womans
University
Dr. Wan-wen Chu, Research Fellow, RCHSS, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan/ Adjunct Professor, National
Taiwan University
BREAK
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
(Moderator) Dr. Aya Okada, Professor, Graduate
School of International Development, Nagoya
University
Dr. Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International
Cooperation and Development, Emeritus, The New
School for Social Research
Dr. Ajit Singh, Emeritus Professor of Economics,
Cambridge University
SESSION III:
4:50 - 4:25
5:30 – 6:30
5:25 – 5:30
ALICE AMSDEN AS TEACHER & ADVISOR
ALICE AMSDEN AS TEACHER & ADVISOR
(Moderator) Dr. Karen Polenske, Professor, DUSP
Dr. Paola Perez-Aleman, Associate Professor of
Strategy & Organization, McGill University
Dr. Monica Pinhanez, Professor, Brazilian School of
Public Administration & Business
Dr. Lynn Pyun, DUSP Graduate 2012
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
CLOSING REMARKS
Dr. Amy Glasmeier, Head and Professor, DUSP
Symposium (CONTINUED)
Speaker Bios
DR. WAN-WEN CHURESEARCH FELLOW, RCHSS,
ACADEMIA SINICA, TAIPEI, TAIWAN/
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, NATIONAL
TAIWAN UNIVERSITYT
Dr. Wan-Wen Chu is chairperson of the Program for Economic
Development and Trade in East Asia in the Research Center for
Humanities and Social Science at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Her books include Engine of Economic Growth: Studies of Taiwan’s
Petrochemical and Bicycle Industries (Taishe, 2002) and Globalization
and the Taiwan Economy (Taishe, 2003). Before becoming an adjunct
professor at the National Taiwan University, she taught at the University
of Notre Dame and University of California, Los Angeles. Her research
interests include economic development (the development of newly
industrializing countries), industrial policy, and industrial organization.
Alice was a frequent collaborator and researcher on projects in Taiwan
and co-author of Beyond Late Development (2003) with Dr. Chu.
DR. CARTER J. ECKERTYOON SE YOUNG PROFESSOR OF
KOREAN HISTORY, EAST ASIAN
LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
As Yoon Se Young Professor, Dr. Carter J. Eckert is actively engaged in
enhancing the study of Korean history at Harvard University through the
introduction of new courses and promotion of dialogue and exchange
with scholars working on Korean history throughout the world, including
China, Japan, Europe, and, of course Korea itself. He is the author of
Offspring of Empire: The Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, which
received the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History from the
American Historical Association and the John Whitney Hall Book Prize
from the Association for Asian Studies. He is a co-author of Korea Old
and New: A History, a widely-used university textbook on Korean history.
He also recently co-edited a book on the economic development of
the Republic of Korea with Professor Lee-Jay Cho of the University of
Hawaii.
Alice was a close friend of Dr. Eckert—their relationship went back nearly
thirty years—and they were colleagues in the study of Korean economic
development.
DR. KEVIN GALLAGHERASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, BOSTON
UNIVERSITY
Dr. Kevin Gallagher coordinates the Global Development Policy Program
at Boston University. He is the author of The Dragon in the Room: China
and the Future of Latin American Industrialization (with R. Porzecanski),
The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable
Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley (with L. Zarsky), and Free Trade
and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. As a faculty fellow
at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range
Future, he leads the Global Economic Governance Initiative. He is a
research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute
of Tufts University and the Political Economy Research Institute of the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Dr. Gallagher was a former student of Alice and recent collaborator on
“the new developmentalism”.
DR. AMY GLASMEIERHEAD AND PROFESSOR, DUSP
Dr. Amy Glasmeier is Head of the Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, the longest-running continuous planning program in the
United States, repeatedly ranked #1 in the nation. She is an expert in
economic geography, regional planning and spatial statistics. Prior
to coming to MIT, she was E. Willard Miller Professor of Economic
Geography at the Pennsylvania State University and the John Whisman
Scholar of the Appalachian Regional Commission. She is currently
engaged in a retrospective examination of poverty and poverty policy
in the U.S., work that is leading to new perspectives on the nature and
extent of persistent poverty here. She is also completing a project on
the spatial location of wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan,
hoping through this work to draw attention to the particular difficulties
of soldiers seeking health care while living in rural areas.
Alice’s work inspired Amy and taught her that alternative narratives
should have equal footing in the debate about the future. Alice was a
precious colleague; funny, caring, and ferocious in her beliefs.
DR. EUN MEE KIMDEAN AND PROFESSOR, GRADUATE
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES,
EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY
In addition to currently serving as president of the Korea Association
of International Development, Dr. Eun Mee Kim has been a civilian
member of the Committee for International Development Cooperation
under the Prime Minister’s Office, Policy Advisory Committee under the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Policy Advisory Committee
under the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. Her interests include
international development cooperation, foreign aid, political economy
of development, globalization and multiculturalism. She is the author
of Adapt, Fragment, Transform: Corporate Restructuring and System
Reform in South Korea (Stanford University Shorenstein Asia-Pacific
Research Center, 2012), among other books..
Alice was a colleague, friend, and mentor of Dr. Kim on work on South
Korea’s economic development, and especially on chaebol (business
groups) and is dearly missed.
DR. JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPOPROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF
INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Dr. José Antonio Ocampo is director of the Economic and Political
Development Concentration in the School of International and Public
Affairs, Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought, and co-President
of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. The recipient
of the 2008 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic
Thought and the 1988 Alejandro Angel Escobar National Science
Award of Colombia, he has published extensively on macroeconomic
theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social
development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American
economic history.
To Dr. Ocampo, Alice was a constant intellectual inspiration, a
magnificent person to debate development issues and, above all, just a
great friend.
DR. AYA OKADAPROFESSOR, GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
NAGOYA UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY
Dr. Aya Okada is currently a visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru
University in India, and in 2011 and 2012 was a visiting scholar in the
Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT, at Alice’s
invitation. Her research interests include economic and industrial
development, regional industrial clusters, and education and skills
development in Asian developing countries. Dr. Okada’s books
include Industrial Skills Development in Developing Countries (2008,
in Japanese) and Human Resources Development in Cambodia
(forthcoming, in Japanese). Her current research examines changing
patterns of skills development in India, China, and the U.S. Recently,
she has played consulting/advisory roles for the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) and UNESCO.
Dr. Okada was one of Alice’s first doctoral students when Alice joined
DUSP/MIT in early 1994—Alice remained her close advisor, mentor and
good friend.
DR. PAOLA PEREZ-ALEMANASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF STRATEGY
& ORGANIZATION, MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Dr. Paola Perez-Aleman’s research focuses on enterprise development
and its links to wider socio-economic processes in emerging and
developing economies. Her recent article, “Collective Learning in
Global Diffusion: Spreading Quality Standards in a Developing Country
Cluster,” in Organization Science was selected by the Industries Studies
Association and INFORMS as one of the five best articles published
in all 11 INFORMS journals (800 articles) in 2011. In recognition of her
exceptional leadership in integrating social and environmental issues
into her research and teaching in management, she was named a
Faculty Pioneer Award Finalist by the Aspen Institute in 2010.
Alice was Dr. Perez-Aleman’s doctoral supervisor, long-life mentor and
friend, and a constant source of inspiration. They enjoyed regular visits in
Cambridge, Nicaragua, and Cape Cod.
DR. MONICA PINHANEZPROFESSOR, BRAZILIAN SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & BUSINESS
Dr. Monica Pinhanez is currently an adjunct professor of the Brazilian
School of Public and Business Management (EBAPE) of the Getulio
Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has lectured at New
York University, Rutgers University, University of Toronto, Yokohama
International University, and Foundation School of Sociology and
Politics of Sao Paulo (FESPSP). She has also worked at the International
Labour Organization (ILO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
and the Housing Office of the City of Sao Paulo. Her main areas of
interest are organizational theory applied to the public sector, new
public management, state reform, and motivation and performance of
public employees.
Dr. Pinhanez was a doctoral student of Alice.
DR. KAREN R. POLENSKEPROFESSOR, DUSP
Since 1966, Dr. Karen R. Polenske has conducted energy, environment,
and transportation projects in many U.S. regions, including Appalachia,
New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and in Brazil, China, Iran, and other
countries. She is well known as one of the most prominent input-output
economists in the world and for her work on regional energy and
environmental issues. She is a Fellow of the International Input-Output
Association (IIOA) and of the Regional Science Association International
(RSAI), the highest honor in each association. She was President of
the IIOA (1995–2000) and Head of the International Development and
Regional Planning Group in DUSP (1995–2006). Her publications include
eight books and numerous articles in key economic and planning
journals.
Alice was a valued colleague in DUSP with whom Dr. Polenske enjoyed
frequent interactions.
DR. LYNN PYUNDUSP GRADUATE 2012
Dr. Lynn Pyun is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard
Business School. Broadly defined, her research interest is in how
institutions impact economic development, particularly the performance
of business firms. Alice played a central role in shaping her research
orientation and professional development.
Dr. Pyun was Alice’s last Ph.D. advisee, and she is deeply grateful for
Alice’s guidance and support over the years.
DR. HELEN SHAPIROCOLLEGES 9 & 10 PROVOST, ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, UC SANTA
CRUZ
Dr. Helen Shapiro teaches in the Departments of Sociology, Latin
American and Latino Studies, and Economics at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. She has published widely on Latin American
economic development and industrial policy, including Engines
of Growth: The State and Transnational Auto Companies in Brazil
(Cambridge University Press, 1994). She previously taught at the
Harvard Business School. Since 2006 she has held the position of
Provost of Colleges 9 and 10/Associate Dean of Social Sciences at UCSC.
Her research interests include political economy; economic development
in Latin America; industrial policy; business-government relations.
Alice became a close friend and colleague of Dr. Shapiro after their initial
meeting in 1988.
DR. AJIT SINGHEMERITUS PROFESSOR OF
ECONOMICS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
In 2011–2012 Dr. Ajit Singh was the fifth holder of the Tun Ismail Ali
Chair at the University of Malaya; in 2012 he will be the first holder of
the Manmohan Singh Chair at the University of Punjab, India. He was a
senior economic adviser to the governments of Mexico and Tanzania
and has advised almost all UN developmental agencies. His research
focuses on modern business enterprise, corporate finance and the
market for corporate control; de-industrialization, structural changes
and employment; and liberalization and globalization of financial and
product markets and emerging countries. He has authored or co-
authored more than 200 research publications and authored or co-
edited 17 books and monographs.
Alice was a professor at MIT, but Dr. Singh believes her true intellectual
home was Cambridge, England.
DR. BALAKRISHNAN RAJAGOPALASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT
OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING
Dr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal is director of the Program on Human Rights
and Justice in the Center for International Studies at MIT. He is a Faculty
Associate in Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and has
been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
in Washington, DC, the Madras Institute of Development Studies
and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, and the Institute for
Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, and a Visiting Professor at the
UN University for Peace, University of Melbourne Law School and the
Washington College of Law, American University. He served for many
years with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia
and received that country’s highest Royal Award for foreign nationals
from the King of Cambodia.
Alice was a colleague and a friend of Raj for many years at DUSP; they
shared mutual interests and co-taught courses.
DR. BEN ROSS SCHNEIDERPROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE,
MIT
Before joining the MIT faculty Dr. Ben Schneider taught at Princeton
University and Northwestern University. He is the author of Hierarchical
Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenge of
Equitable Development (forthcoming), and Business and the State in
20th Century Latin America (Cambridge University Press). He has a
strong interest in contemporary policy debates and has consulted for
the Ford Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank,
Global Development Network, United Nations Research Institute for
Social Research (UNRISD), and governments of Brazil and the United
States.
Alice was an inspiration, in large part due to her book Asia’s Next Giant,
and ever after an intellectual beacon, role model, and friend.
DR. ANDRÉS SOLIMANOCHAIRMAN, INTERNATIONAL
CENTER FOR GLOBALIZATION AND
DEVELOPMENT, CIGLOB
Dr. Solimano is founder and chairman of the International Center for
Globalization and Development (CIGLOB). Previously, he was a Regional
Advisor at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean, Country Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at
the Inter-American Development Bank, and Director of FLACSO-Chile.
His research includes a study of the international mobility of talent for
the UN University-World Institute of Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
His writings have focused on examinations of inequality, growth, macro
and development policy, and political economy.
Alice was a colleague and close friend of Dr. Solimano.
DR. LANCE TAYLORARNHOLD PROFESSOR OF
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND
DEVELOPMENT, EMERITUS, THE NEW
SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
Dr. Lance Taylor has published widely in macroeconomics, development
economics, and economic theory. His books include: Global Finance at
Risk: The Case for International Regulation (with J. Eatwell; The New
Press, 2000), External Liberalization, Economic Performance, and Social
Policy (Oxford, 2001), External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist
Europe, and Brazil (Oxford, 2006), and Maynard’s Revenge The Collapse
of Free Market Macroeconomics (Harvard, 2010). He has been a visiting
scholar or policy advisor in over 25 countries, including Chile, Brazil,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, Egypt, Kuwait, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,
South Africa, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.
Alice was a friend and colleague for almost thirty years of Dr. Taylor—he
learned more from her than he expects she learned from him.
DR. MYRA H. STROBERPROFESSOR OF EDUCATION,
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Dr. Myra Strober is a labor economist and Professor at the School of
Education at Stanford University. She is also Professor at the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University (by courtesy). Dr. Strober’s
research and consulting focus on gender issues at the workplace,
work and family, and multidisciplinarity in higher education. She is the
author of numerous articles on occupational segregation, women in
the professions and management, the economics of childcare, feminist
economics and the teaching of economics.
Myra is Alice’s sister.
Special Thanks To
Benjamin Bradlow
Mary Jane Daly
Maria Victoria del Campo
Sue Delaney
Amy Glasmeier
Ezra Glenn
Kirsten Greco
Maryellen R. Kelley
Stephen Kennedy
Duncan Kincaid
Xin Li
Bill Lombardi
Kyung-Min Nam
Aya Okada
Lynn Pyun
Dean Adèle Naudé Santos
Rebecca Shaw
Myra Strober
Phil Sunde
Sandy Wellford
Bettina Urcuioli
Karen Yegian
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