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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