Chi-ming Hou | |
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侯繼明 | |
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Died | 22 August 1991 | (aged 66)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Fu Jen Catholic University University of Oregon Columbia University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics |
Institutions | Colgate University Brookings Institution Harvard University Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research |
Chi-ming Hou | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 侯繼明 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 侯继明 | ||||||||
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Chi-ming Hou (Chinese: 侯繼明, 3 December 1924 – 22 August 1991) was an American economist.
Hou was born on December 3, 1924, in Zhili (now Hebei), Republic of China. He obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Fu Jen Catholic University in 1945, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1949, a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1954.[citation needed]
Since 1956, he has successively served a faculty, Charles A. Dana Professor, Head of Economics Department, Director of Division Social Superior at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. He is also a research professor at Brookings Institution (1965-1966) and a Research fellow in Chinese economics studies at Harvard University (1959-1962).[citation needed]
He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Taiwan in 1970–1971. Since 1981 he became a Visiting Senior Research Fellow of Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.
Hou's representative work is Foreign Investment Economic Development in China 1840-1937,[1] he has been listed as a noteworthy Economics educator by Marquis Who's Who.[citation needed] In addition, he worked with Sho-Chieh Tsiang and Tzong-Shian Yu to study Taiwan's industrial upgrading,[2] and has also cooperated with Lin Chuan and others to study the feasibility of establishing public and railway transportation funds in Taiwan.[3]