Professor Alasdair MacBean
B.Phil, Oxford MA, PhD, Glasgow
Honorary/Visiting
Department
Management School Office
Professional Role
Project co-ordinator for the EU-funded project Enhancement of Teaching and Research in Management Education (ENTRE), from March 2005
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: ECON 311 Economics of Developing Countries,. ECON 317 International Economics. Other Teaching Competence: Macro-economics International Economic Institutions, Environmental Economics.
Teaching materials are available here.
Research Interests
International trade and economic development. China, and especially China's environmental problems and policies.
Profile
Alasdair MacBean is an Emeritus Professor of Economics. He is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, and spent two years as a Fellow of Harvard University. His main interests are in international trade and economic development. He has taught economics at the Universities of Oxford, Glasgow, Michigan ( Ann Arbor, USA), Humboldt ( Berlin, Germany), Fudan, (Shanghai) and People's University (Peking) P.R. China. He has also worked as an economic adviser for the Harvard Development Service in Pakistan, for the British Ministry of Overseas Development and as a Special Adviser to a House of Lords Committee on International Commodity Problems. He spent a year at the World Bank in Washington as a member of the team that wrote the World Development Report, Industrialization and International Trade (1987) while on leave from Lancaster University. He has been a consultant to the UNDP, FAO, the World Bank, the British-North America Committee, US AID, and several firms of international consultants.
He attended and addressed the Plenary Session of the South East Asia Conference on Economics and Management between South Korea and China on 24th October 2008 in Beijing. The Conference theme was "Management and the Economy" and his presentation was on the "Prospects for Renewable Industries in China".
Consultancy Roles
He has been a consultant on foreign trade policy issues for TACIS/EU, UNFAO, UNDP, USAID, theWorld Bank, and several private consultancy firms. He has also been a consultant on the setting up of the National University of Laos and on establishing academic and applied research there.
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Conference contribution (3)
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Publications
- MacBean A I, 2011, 'Prospects for China's environmental industries', China-Europe Economic Association Conference on China and the Changing Landscape of the World Economy (Dublin) - 2011
View details - MacBean A I, 2009, 'Prospects for China's environmental industries', Sustainable Industrial Development in China
View details - Brown D H and MacBean A I, 2005, 'China's macroeconomic environment and enterprise challenges', in Challenges for China's Development: an Enterprise Perspective, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 1-11, ISBN: 0415341337
View details - Brown D H and MacBean A I, 2005, Challenges for China's Development: an Enterprise Perspective, Routledge, London and New York, ISBN: 0415341337
View details - MacBean A I, 2001, 'Globalisation and environmental standards', International Conference on The Globalization Era: China, Europe and the World (Qinhuangdao, China) - 2001
View details - MacBean A I, 2000, 'Trade promotion in transitional economies', in Trade and Transition: Export Promotion in Transitional Economies, unknown, N/A
View details - MacBean A I and Cass F, 2000, Trade and Transition: Export Promotion in Transitional Economies, unknown, N/A
View details - MacBean A I, 1998, 'Export promotion in the Czech Republic: can it help?', Economics Working Paper Series
View details - MacBean A I, Johnes Jill, Johnes Geraint and Armstrong Harvey, 1993, 'The role of transport costs as a determinant of price level differentials between the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom', World Development, vol 21, no. 2, pp. 311-318.
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