Thomas G. Rawski

Phone: 412-648-7062
Office: 4M30 Forbes Quad
Email: tgrawski@pitt.edu
 
 

Thomas G. Rawski, Professor of Economics and History, joined the University of Pittsburgh's faculty in 1985 after fourteen years at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the nature and implications of recent developments and long term changes in the economy of China.
 

Recent Papers:

2002 Papers

• "Will Investment Behavior Constrain China's Growth?" [China Perspectives, No.38(2001): 28-35]
• "Measuring China's Recent GDP Growth: Where Do We Stand?" [Chinese-language version forthcoming in Jingjixue, (China Economic Quarterly) 2.1 (October 2002)]
• Where's the Growth? [Annotated text of Op-Ed in Asian Wall Street Journal, April 19 (abbreviated version in Wall Street Journal, April 22)]
• "Recent Developments in China's Labor Economy," [Report prepared for International Policy Group, International Labor Office, Geneva, January 2002.]
  
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2001 Papers

• "China's reform Watch: Turning Point Looming," [China Perspectives, No.38(2001): 28-35]
• "Beware Quick Fix for Japan," [Japan Times, November 27 2001]
• What's Happening to China's GDP Statistics? [China Economic Review, 12.4 (2001): 347-354]
• China's GDP Statistics - A Case of Caveat Lector?

2000 Papers

• Ownership, Productivity Change, and Financial Performance in Chinese Industry (with three co-authors). August 2000 typescript of paper published in the Journal of Comparative Economics 28.4 (2000): 786-813.
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• Is China's State Enterprise Problem Still Important?
• Social Capabilities and Chinese Economic Growth
• China By the Numbers: How Reform Affected Chinese Economic Statistics
• Notes on the Calculation of Chinese Aggregate Output Growth for 1997/98
• Calculation of Chinese Aggregate Output Growth for 1997/98
• Comment on the Calculation of Chinese Aggregate Output Growth for 1997/98


1999 Papers

• China's Move To Market: How Far?  What Next?
•  China's Economy After Fifty Years: Retrospect And Prospect
• The Political Economy of China's Declining Growth

Recent Publications

• Further publications and working papers are found in my resume

Courses that I teach:

• Economics 0450 - Technological Change
• Economics 0630 - East Asia's Dynamic Economics
• Economics 1630 - China's Economy
• Economics 1640 - Economy of Japan

Department of Economics
Last modified: September 24, 2002