Overview

My research and course development focus on questions of how markets and market mechanisms interact with concentrated political power, especially in the context of authoritarian or illiberal regimes. Geographically, my expertise is in the political economy of Asia, especially the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but over the last ten years, my work has evolved from a detailed empirical focus on China’s domestic political economy to putting China in comparative and historical perspective and understanding its influence in the world as Chinese economic actors have globalized.