Yew-Kwang Ng
Yew-Kwang Ng (born 1942) is an economist at Monash University.
As a young child, he was described by his uncle as "3 quarters" (not complete). He also spent 8 years to complete the 6-year primary school, repeating both grades 2 and 3. He spent most of his high-school years actively engaging in underground left-wing activities. After the turbulence of strikes and demonstrations and several close misses of being arrested or expelled, he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Nanyang University in 1966 (and later a Ph.D. from Sydney University in 1971).[1] Though reputed to be one of the best students among his classmates, his academic scores were rather mediocre, until he published a paper in Journal of Political Economy in 1965 and gave a copy to each of his professors.
He holds a personal chair at Monash and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980. His is renowned for his work in welfare economics, proposed mesoeconomics (a simplified general equilibrium analysis with both micro and macro elements) and welfare biology. He also collaborates with Xiaokai Yang on an inframarginal analysis of division of labour. He has published more than one hundred and fifty refereed papers in economics and a dozen in biology, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology and more than a hundred articles in the popular press. He has authored or coauthored eight books in economics. He has published a Kungfu novel in Chinese serialized in Nanyang Business Daily (Malaysia) and as a book The Unparalleled Mystery (Beijing: Writers Press, 1994).
Select bibliography
- Welfare Economics (London: Macmillan, 1979 and 1983),
- Mesoeconomics: A Micro-Macro Analysis (London: Wheatsheaf, 1986)
- Social Welfare and Economic Policy (London: Wheatsheaf, 1990)
- Specialization and Economic Organization (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1993, with X. Yang)
- Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis, ed. (London: Macmillan, 1998, with Kenneth Arrow and X. Yang)
- Economics and Happiness (Collected papers in Chinese) (Taipei: Maw Chang, 1999)
- Efficiency, Equality, and Public Policy: With a Case for Higher Public Spending (London: Macmillan, 2000)
- Welfare Economics: Towards a Complete Analysis\ (London: Macmillan, forthcoming)
External links
- EconPapers of Yew-Kwang Ng
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| NAME | Ng, Yew-Kwang |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Australian economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
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