Bio
Professor Yan Liang specializes in Post Keynesian-Institutionalist approach to international trade and finance, financial macroeconomics and economic development (with a regional focus on China). She has published articles in International Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Issues, The Chinese Economy, and China & the World Economy. Professor Liang’s teaching interests include Macroeconomics, International Economics, Economic Development, Monetary Theory and Financial System, and Political Economy of East and Southeast Asia. Professor Liang has previously taught at University of Redlands and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She received a master’s degree and a doctorate degree in Economics from University of Missouri-Kansas City. Professor Liang is an active member of the Association of Evolutionary Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, and Association for Institutional Thought.
Courses
IDS 101-21 College Colloquium
ECON470W Advanced Topic in Economics
ECON320 Discourse on Income Inequality
ECON470W Advanced Topic in Economics
ECON496W Senior Research Seminar
ECON364 Macroeconomic Theory
ECON470W Advanced Topic in Economics Spring 2017
ECON353 International Economics
ECON399 Discourse on Income Inequality
ECON496W Senior Research Seminar
Citations
“Modern Money Theory and Development Finance,” forthcoming in Financial integration and exchange rates in emerging economies: the contribution of Post-Keynesian economics (eds. Bonizzi, Kaltenbrunner and Ramos).
Routledge. “Rebalancing, Deleveraging and Sustaining Growth in China,” The Chinese Economy, 2017, Volume 50, Issue 6, pp. 370-380.
“Heterodox Reconstruction of Trade Theory,” Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics: Theorising, Analysing and Transforming Capitalism (eds. Tae-Hee Jo, et al.), 2017, pp. 320-332. Routledge.
“Minsky in Beijing: Shadow Banking, Credit Expansion and Debt Accumulation in China”, in Financial Development, Economic Crisis and Emerging Market Economies (ed. Faruk Ulgen), 2016, pp. 223-237. Routledge.
“Shadow Banking in China: Implications for Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Rebalancing”, the Chinese Economy, 2016, Volume 49, Issue 3, 148-160.
“Inside Shadow Banking in China: Credit Driven Growth vs. Financial Stability”, Journal of Economic Issues, 2016, Volume 50, Issue 2, 461-470.
“Impacts of Global Financial Crisis on China: A Gendered Analysis” (co-authored with Sara Hsu), Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis (ed. Rania Antonopolous), 2013, pp. 132-156. Routledge.
“Global Imbalances and Financial Crisis: Financial Globalization as a Common Cause”, Journal of Economic Issues, 2012, Vol. 46, No. 2, 353-362.
Awards
Grant, Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment, Faculty Seminar (2018)
Liberal Arts Research Collaborative, Summer Research Community Grant (2018)
Atkinson Research Grant (2018)
Center for Asian Studies Research Grant (2016)
Atkinson Research Grant, 杏十八新茶分享 (2015)
Institute for New Economic Thinking Grant (2014)