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Danny Quah LSE
Economics Department



This page is a running accumulation of older items that have been taken out of my homepage. Even earlier items can still be accessed but their organization will no longer be updated. Eventually, everything that remains useful will migrate elsewhere to be available more directly.


QUICK INFORMATION


DQ with MSc Econ group - 2009.06.19 End of Year celebration [Photo, from Hiba Haider Zaidi 2009.06.19 MSc Econ End of Year celebration]

I am Head of Department and Professor of Economics at the LSE.

At LSE I am also Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and Chair of the China Summer School Board for the LSE-PKU Summer School.

Academic CV [2009.04] | 2-page version [2009.04]

Research: Economic growth. Income distribution and inequality. Global economy. Technology.

Teaching: Macroeconomics. Global Economy.

Other: Taekwon-do

CONTACT BY EMAIL


RECENT WRITING:

[Newer posts...]

2008.11.15 Blog: Martial arts on the mean streets of East Asia.

2008.10.17 von Mises blog: Hayek's Legacy.

2008.05.20 MobileActive.org blog: Wireless Technology for Social Change.
[Also Mobile technology's world-saving mission, ZDNet column, 2008.05.26 entry]

2008.04.06 Blog: Who moved my BlackBerry... and those hundreds of millions of people?

[Even earlier posts...]




MY TEACHING:


  • 2009 Office hours Thursdays 1330h - 1500h S877
  • Ec413 - Macroeconomics for MSc (Fall term 2008)
  • CSS - Ec204 The Global Economy (Beijing, August 2009)

2007 July graduation (2007.07.13) Being part of LSE's graduation in the brilliant London summer sunshine.




MY RECENT WRITINGS, WITH MATHEMATICS:


14 October 2008
Life in unequal growing economies. (Technical manuscript) Incomplete, very rough draft PDF (49 pages, 1.27Mb)

13 October 2008
Post-1990s East Asian Economic Growth PDF (29 pages, 616Kb)

April 2007
Growth and distribution. Technical manuscript. Incomplete, very rough draft PDF (139 pages, 608Kb)

[More]...
[The online CV also contains clickable links to older papers.]



MARTIAL ARTS:


I have blogged about martial arts elsewhere. Videos and photographs remain where they were.






MY MOST RECENT ACTIVITY:


[Newer posts...]

22 April 2009
Discuss "Imagining India" - Asia Research Centre Public Lecture by Nandan Nilekani
Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h
[vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast]

02 April 2009 China Radio International - People in the Know Interview - G20 [online] | Long version [mp3] (8.8Mb, 25 mins)
(with Prof. Sun Jie, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Beijing

01 April 2009 BBC World Service Business Daily interview - G20 [mp3] (3.4Mb, 4 mins)
London

03 March 2009
What should the next G-20 meeting do?
Panel discussion, with Michael Cox and Will Hutton. Chair: David Held
Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h
[DQ opening statement] [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast]

17 February 2009
The Global Economic Crisis - Meeting the Challenge
Panel discussion, with Tim Besley, Francesco Caselli, and Chris Pissarides. Chair: Richard Layard
Old Theatre, LSE. 1830h-2000h
[DQ opening statement] [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast]

31 January 2009
China Development Forum: 2009, The Critical Year of China's Economy
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House LSE. 0915h-1800h

27 January 2009
LSE Asia Research Centre series: China - 30 Years of Reform
"The Shifting Distribution of World Economic Activity: China and Global Imbalance"
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building LSE. 1830h-2000h [Slides (3/p) | animation] [vodcast (scroll to date)] [podcast]

14 January 2009
World Economy Asia Lecture
"Will Asia Save the World?"
Leverhulme Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy
Kuala Lumpur
[Selected press reports: China Review 2009.01.22 | The Star Malaysia 2009.01.16]

13 January 2009
Goh Keng Swee Lecture
"China and Global Imbalance"
East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore
Singapore

Early January 2009
LSE Alumni events:
Hong Kong Thursday 08 January 2009 | Kuala Lumpur Friday 09 January 2009 | Singapore Monday 12 January 2009
The Far East

25 November 2008
PuLSE FM
One hour to play the music I like and to talk about the global economy at the same time.
Until 2008.12.03 for streaming play visit PuLSE FM | Listen Live | On Demand |Wednesday | DQ show

21 November 2008
Where in the world is Asian Thrift and the Global Savings Glut?
Entries on [ Personal blog | RGE Monitor Global Macro | Asia ]

11 November 2008
Part of 2-day LSE macroeconomics seminar on the Credit Crunch
Global imbalance, global savings glut
The global economic crisis and the (non) role of Asian thrift - in 3 slides.
(The third slide is an animation.)
Blog [2008.11.16] entry: "Where in the world is Asian Thrift and the Global Savings Glut?"
LSE, London

21 October 2008
Khazanah Megatrends Forum 2008
Shifting sands: The real side longer term
Presentation [3/page version] (PDFs)
Mandarin Oriental, KL Malaysia

14 October 2008
Life in unequal growing economies. (Technical manuscript) Incomplete, very rough draft PDF (49 pages, 1.27Mb)
Abstract: This paper characterizes the dynamic welfare implications of varying patterns of growth and inequality. In their impact on poverty, historically observed changes in aggregate growth overwhelm those in inequality. However, their welfare implications are more nuanced. For a reasonable...[More]
Interview, September 2007, Knowledge @ Singapore Management University: Measuring the tradeoffs between economic growth and unequal distribution
Conference presentations: Cambridge University 2007 May | Brown University Watson Institute Conference 2007 April

13 October 2008
Post-1990s East Asian Economic Growth PDF (29 pages, 616Kb)
Abstract: Immediately after 1997 the Asian economies were viewed to be catastrophes of financial excess, corporate and political misgovernance, and diminishing returns to over-investment. But they are now freshly restored...[More]

11 October 2008
LSE Asia Forum 2008 video (recorded 11 April 2008) With Lee Hsien Loong, Conor Gearty, Nik Rose, John Sidel, and Nick Stern
Friday 11 April 2008, Singapore

26 September 2008 Hay Festival Segovia
The global crisis: Is the world economy out of control?
Friday 26 September 2008 12pm, Caja de Segovia

05 August 2008 Bank Negara Malaysia lecture
"Global growth and inflation"
Abstract: The nature and drivers of inflation worldwide now differ from when the entire world managed to reduce inflation so dramatically in the 1990s. A decade ago, the forces of globalization and de-regulation...[More]
[DQ presentation, 3.3Mb]
Bank Negara Malaysia, KL
[Some press coverage: Business Times Thu 2008.08.14 (temporary link)]

24 July 2008 LSE Japan evening (with DQ public lecture)
"Post-1990s East Asian economic growth"
Photos
Roppongi Hills Club, Tokyo

[Even earlier posts...]



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