Alice Amsden

Alice Amsden is the Barton L Weller Professor of Political Economy at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Professor Amsden's research interests focus on economic and industrial development. She has recently done a research project with the Asian Development Bank Institute on research & development by foreign firms in developing countries. She is currently working with the ADBI on a project on the Indian software industry.

Selected recent publications by Amsden include Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies, co-authored with Wan Wen Chu (MIT Press, June 2003); The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Countries (Oxford University Press, 2003); The Market Meets its Match: Restructuring the Economies of Eastern Europe, co-authored with Jacek Kochanowicz and Lance Taylor (Harvard University Press, 1994); Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization (Oxford, 1989) which won the prize of Best Book in Political Economy in 1992 from the American Political Science Association.

Additionally, Amsden has served as a consultant with the World Bank, OECD, and various United Nations organizations. Has written extensively on problems of industrial transformation in East Africa, East Asia, and Eastern Europe.