Barry Naughton is an economist and professor at the University of California, San Diego. Naughton has published extensively on the Chinese economy, with a focus on four interrelated areas: economic transition; industry and technology; foreign trade; and Chinese political economy. His pioneering study of Chinese economic reform, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Naughton’s most recent book is The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, a comprehensive survey of the Chinese economy published by MIT Press in 2007, and translated into Chinese and Korean. Naughton publishes regular quarterly analyses of China’s economic policymaking online at China Leadership Monitor.
Experience
Current Positions
- Professor of Chinese Economy, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
Past Positions
- Chairman, Committee on Advanced Study in China, of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China
- Associate Dean, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
Education
- Ph.D. in Economics, Yale University (1986)
- M.A. in International Relations, Yale University (1979)
- B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, University of Washington (1975)
Language Fluency