Chi-ming Hou (, 3 December 192422 August 1991) was an American economist.
Biography Hou was born on December 3, 1924, in Zhili (now Hebei), Republic of China. He obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Fu Jen Catholic University in 1945, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1949, a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1954.
Since 1956, he has successively served a faculty, Charles A. Dana Professor, Head of Economics Department, Director of Division Social Superior at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. He is also a research professor at Brookings Institution (1965–1966) and a Research fellow in Chinese economics studies at Harvard University (1959–1962).
He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Taiwan in 1970–1971. Since 1981 he became a Visiting Senior Research Fellow of Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.
Contributions and recognition Hou's representative work is Foreign Investment Economic Development in China 1840-1937,R. Keith Schoppa, The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History. p.242. he has been listed as a noteworthy Economics educator by Marquis Who's Who. In addition, he worked with Sho-Chieh Tsiang and Tzong-Shian Yu to study Taiwan's industrial upgrading,蔣碩傑、于宗先、侯繼明等共同計劃主持(1988)，「利用外資引進技術以促進我國產業技術升級，經濟部投資業務處」，台北，中華經濟研究院。 and has also cooperated with Lin Chuan and others to study the feasibility of establishing public and railway transportation funds in Taiwan.建立公、鐵路運輸基金之可行性研究 | 財團法人中華經濟研究院
Member, American Economics Association (AEA). Member, Association for Asian Studies (AAS).
See also Sho-Chieh Tsiang Lin Chuan
External links Chi-Ming Hou | American Enterprise Institute - AEI Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China, 1840-1937 — Chi-ming Hou | Harvard University Press
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