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LINDA YUEN-CHING LIM
Professor Emerita of Corporate Strategy and International Business
STEPHEN M. ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
University of Michigan
701 Tappan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1234, U.S.A.
March 2019
https://michiganross.umich.edu/faculty-research/faculty/linda-lim
Telephone: (734) 6654803 (H)
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics (1978), University of Michigan "Multinational Firms and Manufacturing for
Export in Less-Developed Countries: the Case of the Electronics Industry in Malaysia and
Singapore" (631 pp.)
M.A. in International and Foreign Economic Administration (1973), Economic Growth Center,
Yale University
B.A. Honours in Economics (1972), University of Cambridge (M.A. 1975)
EMPLOYMENT: TEACHING
Professor Emerita of Corporate Strategy and International Business (2017-)
Professor of Strategy (2006-2017)
Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business (2001-2006)
Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan
(1994-2001)
Lecturer/Adjunct Associate Professor/Associate Professor of International Business, University
of Michigan (1986-1994)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan (1985-1986)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College (1977-1980)
Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Michigan (1974-1975)
EMPLOYMENT: ADMINISTRATION
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: Director (2005-09)
International Institute, University of Michigan: Associate Director (2001-2004)
Center for International Business Education, University of Michigan Business School: Interim
Director (Sept. 1989-Feb. 1991)
Southeast Asia Business Program, University of Michigan: Research Director (Center for South
and Southeast Asian Studies, 1984-93), Director (University of Michigan Business School
1993-2000)
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EMPLOYMENT: RESEARCH
Research Fellow, Economic Research Centre, National University of Singapore (1981)
Research Assistant, Center for Research on Economic Development, University of Michigan
(1974)
VISITING APPOINTMENT
NTUC Professor of International Economic Relations, Rajaratnam School of International
Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March-April 2018
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award, Stephen Ross School of Business (2014)
U.S. Department of Education, Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and
Area Studies awards (2006-10)
U.S. Department of Education, Business and International Programs institutional grants for
Southeast Asia Business Program (1983-1996)
National Book Development Council, Singapore, Non-Fiction (English) first-place award 1994
for Foreign Direct Investment and Industrialisation (1991)
International Relations Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation (1981-1983)
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (1980-1981)
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research Council and Ford Foundation (1975-
1977)
Ford Foundation Fellowship, University of Michigan (1973-1974)
COURSES TAUGHT
At University of Michigan
Business in Asia/Business in Southeast Asia (MBA, 1988-2016)
The World Economy (MBA, BBA, Executive MBA, Global MBA, 1986-2016, including
International Business core)
Global Interdependence (BA, MA, 1990-1993)
Economies of Southeast Asia (MA, 1984-1992)
International Management (BBA, 1986-1988)
Economic Development (BA, 1985-1986)
At Swarthmore College
Political Economy (BA, 1980)
Introductory Economics (BA, 1977-1980)
Economic Development (BA, 1977-1980)
History of Economic Thought (BA, 1977-1979)
Executive Education
“Global Business” with focus on Belt-and-Road countries, PICC Property and Casualty
Company custom program (2017-18)
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“Industrial Upgrading and Financial Innovation”, China Development Bank custom program
(2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
“Globalization,” ICBC(Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) custom program (2015, 2017)
“Meeting the Challenge of Asia’s Rise,” Executive Program (2006-2014)
Various sessions on “Globalization,” IESE EMBA Program (2003-2005)
“World Economy,” Executive Program (2002-2003)
"Southeast Asia," Executive Education, various programs (1994-2002)
“Business Strategies for Emerging Asian Economies,” Southeast Asia Business Program (1991-
1998)
THESIS COMMITTEES/ EXTERNAL EXAMINER
External examiner for Ph.D. and MA theses at University of Michigan, University of Toronto,
National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Singapore
Management University, University of Malaya, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Asian Institute of
Technology (Thailand)
CONSULTANCIES AND CONTRACT RESEARCH
“Prospects for U.S. Foreign Direct Investment in Thailand” for Thailand Board of Investment-
New York (2011-12)
“Best Practices from Singapore’s Public Policies for Other Countries” for Oxford Analytica
(2011)
“2020 Scenario Planning” for Ford Motor Company (2010)
Global Business Network (Monitor Group) for Ford Motor Company (Asia) (2006)
General Motors Asia Counsel (2004)
J.D. Power & Associates (2004)
International Labour Organisation, United Nations
Employers’ Associations Division (2000-2001)
Labour Relations Division (1985)
Multinational Enterprises Bureau (1983-1984)
International Division of Labour Division (1981-1982)
Chinese Heritage Center (Singapore) (1996)
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) (1994-95)
American Enterprise Institute (Washington) (1994-95)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (1993-1994)
United Nations University, Institute of Technology (UNU/INTECH) (1993-1994)
United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) (1991-1992)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Centre (1988-
1989, 1990-1991)
Michigan Export Development Authority (1990)
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, and Overseas Development
Council (1988)
The World Bank (1987)
Overseas Development Institute (London) (1985-1986)
U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (1984-1985)
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United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (1983-1984)
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations (1981, 1982)
U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (1984-1985)
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (1980)
United Nations Fund for Population Activities (1978-1979)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Singapore (1976)
CORPORATE SERVICE
Member of the Board, Multi-Fineline Electronics (NASDAQ MFLX), Irvine, CA. (2008-2016)
Member of the Board, Woodhead Industries (NASDAQ WDHD), Chicago (1998-2006)
Member, International Advisory Committee, CMS Energy, Dearborn (1998-2000)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial
Founder and Academic Editor, Journal of Asian Business (1990-2015)
Editorial Board, Journal of International Business Studies (1997-2004)
Editorial Board, Journal of East Asian Studies (2002-2012)
International Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Asia-Pacific Economy (1995-2008)
Editorial Advisory Board, Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia (1978-2011)
Editorial Reviews
Manuscripts reviewed for
Asia-Pacific Law Review
Asian Journal of Social Science
Asian Survey
Australian Journal of Public Administration
Bloomsbury Academic Press
Business History Review
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Critical Asian Studies
Crossroads, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Development and Change
Elsevier Publishers*
Ethos Books
Harvard Business Review Press
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore)
International Institute for Asian Studies (Netherlands)
International History Review
International Small Business Journal
Journal of Asian Business
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal Ekonomi Malaysia
Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of International Marketing
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Journal of Management Studies
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
Oxford University Press
Palgrave-Macmillan
Pacific Affairs
Select Books (Singapore)
SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Transactions on Engineering Management
University of Michigan Press
Women’s Studies Quarterly
Non-University of Michigan
Member of Panel of Judges, Essay Contest on the Singapore Economy, Lee Kuan Yew School of
Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2016)
Member, Advisory Board for Asian Women’s Leadership University (2010-13)
World Bank, proposal review for Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization (2006)
Member, International Advisory Council, Institute Teknologi Bandung School of Business
Management (2005-)
Member, Board of National University of Singapore America Foundation (2005-present)
Member, Board of Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute consortium of US universities
(2005-08)
External Reviewer (Faculty Promotion and Tenure), Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore (2005, 2017), University of Malaya (2003, 2006)
Resource Person/Advisor to Steering Committee on University Autonomy, Governance and
Finance, Ministry of Education, Singapore (2004)
External Reviewer, Quality Review of Social Sciences and Economics Departments, Australia
National University (2004)
Member, Board of Trustees, The Asia Society (1998-2004)
Member, Advisory Council, Asia Social Issues Program, The Asia Society (2001-04)
Member, Committee of the Program on International Studies in Asia (1993-present)
Member, Governor’s Commission on Asia and International Studies in the Schools (2001-02)
Member, Research Advisory Board, Committee for Economic Development (1998-2001)
Member, United Nations Committee for Development Planning (1995-98)
Member, Asia Society Study Mission on Taiwan Investment in East/Southeast Asia
(1996-97)
Member, Advisory Council of the Korea Economic Institute of America (1994-98)
Member, National Selection Comittee, Free Market Development Advisors Program, Institute of
International Education and U.S. Agency for International Development (1992)
Member, State of Michigan Task Force on International Trade (1990)
Member, Working Group on the Private Sector and International Education, Coalition for the
Advancement of Foreign Language and International Studies (CAFLIS) (1988-89)
Member, Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (1985-88)
Member, Contemporary Affairs Committee, The Asia Society (1985-90)
Member, Expert Group on the Management of Technological Change, Commonwealth
Secretariat, London (1984-85)
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Adviser, Task Force on Female Labour Force Participation, National Productivity Board,
Singapore (1984)
Executive Committee of the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group, Association for Asian
Studies (1979-1980, 1986-87)
University of Michigan (not including Ross faculty committee assignments)
Member, Executive Committee, Center for Chinese Studies (1999-2001, 2002-04, 2007-08,
2010-12, 2013-15)
Member, Executive Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (1996-2009, 2011-13)
Member, Executive Committee, Center for International Business Education, Ross School of
Business (1989-2014)
Member, Faculty Senate Assembly (Ross School representative) (2008-10, 2013-15)
Member, Internal Advisory Board, Center for Global Health (2009-2012)
Member, Global Health Center Director’s Search Committee (GHC) (2006-08)
Member, Global Health Center Visioning Committee (2007)
Member, President Coleman’s Task Force on China (CTF) (2007-08)
Member, Steering Committee, President’s Office’s Year of Global Arts (2006-07)
Member, Steering Committee, International Institute (2005-08)
Member, Journal Advisory Board, International Institute (2007-10)
Member, Executive Committee, Office of International Programs (2004-08)
Faculty Advisor, MBA/MA in Asian Studies joint degree programs (1985-present)
Faculty Advisor, Ross Asia Business Conference (1996-2015)
Faculty Advisor, Singapore Students’ Association (1984-present)
Faculty Advisor, Singapore Graduate Students’ Association (2007-) defunct
Faculty Advisor, College/Scope (student organization) (2005-) defunct
Faculty Advisor, University of Michigan Alumni Association of Singapore (1994)
Member, Board of Advisors, Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows (1996-2015)
Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (1996-2002,
2005, 2006)
Member, Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights (1999-2000)
Business School Member, International Institute Governing Board (1996-99)
CSEAS Member, International Institute Graduate Board (1996-98)
Member, MA in Area Studies Review Committee, International Institute (1995-96)
Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, Center for Chinese Studies (1998)
Faculty Leader, CIBE Asia Study Tour (1996)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
1. Alumni of the University of Michigan MBA/MA in Asian Studies Program, Ann Arbor:
Michigan Publishing 2018 (forthcoming)
2. Business, Government and Labor: Essays in the Economic Development of Singapore and
Southeast Asia, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2018 (424 pp.)
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10576
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3. Singapore’s Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections, Singapore: World
Scientific Publications, 2016 (edited) (322 pp.)
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9798
4. Four Chinese Families in British Colonial Malaya: Confucius, Christianity and
Revolution, 3rd
edition, 2014 (144 pp.) self-published http://www.blurb.com/b/5022666-
four-chinese-families-in-british-colonial-malaya-c
5. The Globalization Debate: Issues and Challenges, Geneva: International Labour
Organisation, 2001 (104 pp.)
6. Foreign Direct Investment and Industrialisation in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and
Thailand, Paris: OECD, 1991 (196 pp.) (with Pang Eng Fong) (in English and French)
7. Investing in Developing Countries, A Guide for Managers, Lexington, Massachusetts:
Lexington Books 1986 (250 pp.) (with Thomas L. Brewer and Kenneth David)
8. Trade, Employment and Industrialisation in Singapore, Geneva: ILO, 1986 (110 pp.) (with
Pang Eng Fong)
9. The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Vol. 1, Ethnicity and Economic Activity (342 pp.), Vol. 2,
Identity, Culture and Politics (328 pp.) Singapore: Maruzen Asia, 1983 (edited, with L.A.P.
Gosling)
PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS AND REPORTS
1. Women in the Economy: Employment, Status of Women in Asia and the Pacific Region,
Series 1, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
Bangkok, 1986 (35 pp.)
2. Women Workers in Multinational Enterprises in Developing Countries, Geneva: ILO, 1985
(119 pp.)
3. Technology Choice and Employment Creation: A Case Study of Three Multinational
Enterprises in Singapore, Economic Research Centre, National University of Singapore,
Occasional Paper Series No. 4, 1982 (32 pp.) (with Pang Eng Fong)
4. Women in the Singapore Economy, Economic Research Centre, National University of
Singapore, Occasional Paper Series No.5, 1982 (33 pp.)
5. Women in the Redeployment of Manufacturing Industry to Developing Countries, UNIDO
Working Papers on Structural Changes No. 18, UNIDO/ICIS.165, 8 July 1980 (39 pp.)
6. Population Redistribution: Patterns, Policies and Prospects, New York: UNFPA Policy
Development Studies No. 2, 1979 (170 pp.)(with L.A.P. Gosling)
7. Women Workers in Multinational Corporations: The Case of the Electronics Industry in
Malaysia and Singapore, Michigan Occasional Papers No. 9, Fall 1978, Women's Studies
Program, University of Michigan (60 pp.)
8. The Electronics Industry in Singapore: Structure, Technology and Linkages, Economic
Research Centre, University of Singapore, Monograph Series No. 7, 1977 (85 pp.) (with
Pang Eng Fong)
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. “The Palm Oil Industry and Southeast Asia’s Haze: Outline for a Class Discussion”, in
Euston Quah and Tsiat Siong Tan (ed.), Pollution Across Borders: Transboundary Fire,
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Smoke and Haze in Southeast Asia, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2018, pp. 93-
102 http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10350
2. “Singapore: Economy” in Far East and Australasia 2017 (Ed. Juliet Love) pp 983-992.
Abingdon, Routledge, 48th
Edn, 2016.
3. “Beyond the ‘Global City’ Paradigm”, Ch. 4 in Su-fern Hoe and Carol Soon (eds.),
Singapore Perspectives 2015: Choices, Singapore: World Scientific and Institute of Policy
Studies, 2015 pp. 51-89. http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9669,
reprinted as Ch. 16 in Insights on Singapore's Economy and Society from Leading
Thinkers: Singapore Perspectives, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2019, pp. 143-
181
4. “Fifty years of Development in the Singapore Economy: An Introductory Review”, Ch. 1
in Linda Y.C. Lim (ed.), Singapore’s Economic Development: Retrospection and
Reflections, Singapore, World Scientific Publications, 2016, pp. 1-15, reprinted from
Singapore Economic Review Vol. 60 No. 3 (2015)
5. “Labor, Productivity and Singapore’s Development Model” with Pang Eng Fong, Ch. 7 in
Linda Y.C. Lim (ed.), Singapore’s Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections,
Singapore, World Scientific Publications, 2016, pp. 135-168, reprinted from Singapore
Economic Review Vol. 60 No. 3 (2015)
6. “Singapore in the International Economy” in Euston Quah, ed. Singapore 2065: Leading
Insights on the Economy and Environment from 50 Singapore Icons and Beyond,
Singapore: World Scientific Publications, 2015, pp. 98-102
7. “Women in the Singapore Economy – The Inequalities Continue”, in Kanwaljit Soin and
Margaret Thomas, eds., Our Lives to Live: Putting A Woman’s Face to Change in
Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishers, 2015, Ch. 20, pp. 149-154
8. “How Land & People Fit in Singapore’s Economy”, Ch. 2 in Donald Low, ed., Hard
Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus, National University of Singapore Press,
2014, pp. 31-39
9. “What’s Wrong with Singaporeans?”, Ch. 6 in Donald Low and Sudhir Vadaketh, eds.,
Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus, National University of Singapore
Press. 2014, pp. 79-86
10. “Singapore’s Success: After the Miracle” in Robert Looney, ed. Handbook of Emerging
Economies, London: Routledge 2014, pp. 203-226
11. “Southeast Asian Chinese Business and Regional Economic Development”, in Chee-Beng
Tan, ed., Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 249-260.
12. “Globalizing State, Disappearing Nation: Foreign Participation in Singapore’s
Economy”, with Lee Soo Ann, in Terence Chong, ed., The Management of Success:
Singapore Revisited, Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, pp. 139-158
13. “Rebalancing in East Asia”, in Stijn Claessens, Simon Evenett and Bernard Hoekman, eds.,
Rebalancing the Global Economy, A Primer for Policymaking, London: Center for
Economic Policy-Making 2010, pp. 32-35.
14. “Whose ‘Model’ Failed? Implications of the Asian Economic Crisis”, in Roy Allen, ed.,
The Political Economy of Financial Crises, Vol. 1 (November 2004) and in Eugene
Wittkopf and Charles Kegley Jr., eds., The Global Agenda, 6th
edition, McGraw-Hill,
(2000), revised and updated version of article first published in The Washington Quarterly
Vol. 21, No. 3 (1998), pp. 25-36, reprinted with permission.
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15. “Free Market Fancies: Hong Kong, Singapore and the Asian Financial Crisis”, in T.J.
Pempel, ed., The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1999, pp. 101-115
16. “Challenges for Government Policy and Business Practice” in The Asian Economic Crisis:
Policy Choices, Social Consequences and the Philippine Case, Asian Update February
1999, New York: The Asia Society, 1999, pp. 5-29
17. “Relations: Trade and Investment between Southeast Asia and Greater China, 1980s and
1990s”, in Lynn Pan, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, Singapore: Chinese
Heritage Center, 1998, pp. 110-112
18. “Liberalization Has Served Southeast Asia Well”, in Isabelle Grunberg, ed., Perspectives
on Financial Liberalization, New York: United Nations Development Program, 1998, pp.
45-54
19. “Capital Market Liberalization in the Development of Southeast Asia,” in Barry Herman
and Krishnan Sharma, eds., International Finance and Developing Countries in a Year of
Crisis, New York: United Nations University, 1998, pp. 73-80
20. “Strengths and Weaknesses of Minority Status for Southeast Asian Chinese,” (with L.A.P.
Gosling) in Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid, eds., Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews
in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe, Seattle, Washington:
University of Washington Press, 1997, pp. 285-317
21. “U.S.-ASEAN Trade and Investment in Pacific Perspective,” in Claude Barfield, ed.,
Expanding U.S.-Asian Trade and Investment, Washington, DC: American Enterprise
Institute Press, 1997, pp. 175-213
22. “Investment Dynamism in Asian Developing Countries,” (with Nathaniel A. Siddall), in
John H. Dunning and Khalil A. Hamdani, eds., The New Globalism and Developing
Countries, Tokyo: United Nations University Press,1997, pp. 79-125
23. “ASEAN: New Modes of Economic Cooperation,” in David Wurfel and Bruce Burton,
eds., Southeast Asia in the New World Order, London: Macmillan, 1996, pp. 19-35.
24. “Southeast Asian Business Systems: The Dynamics of Diversity,” in A.E. Safarian and
Wendy Dobson, eds., East Asian Capitalism: Diversity and Dynamism, Toronto: Center for
International Business, University of Toronto, 1996, pp.
25. “Structural Change in the Labour Market, Regional Integration and International
Migration,” (with Pang Eng Fong), in OECD, Migration and the Labour Market in Asia,
Paris: OECD, 1996, pp. 61-71.
26. “ASEAN Economic Outlook 1996-97,” in ASEAN Regional Outlook 1996-97, Singapore:
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1996, pp.
27. “Southeast Asia: Success through International Openness,” in Barbara Stallings, ed.,
Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context of Development,
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 238- 271.
28. “ASEAN Economic Outlook 1995-96,” in ASEAN Regional Outlook 1995-96, Singapore:
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1995, pp. 34-50
29. “Foreign Investment, the State and Industrial Policy in Singapore,” in Howard Stein, ed.,
Asian Industrialization and Africa: Case Studies and Policy Alternatives to Structural
Adjustment, London/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, pp. 205-238
30. “The Role of the Private Sector in ASEAN Regional Economic Cooperation,” in Lynn
Mytelka, ed., South-South Cooperation in a Global Perspective, Paris: OECD
Development Centre, 1994, pp.125-168
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31. “Taiwan's Investment in Southeast Asia,” (with Clyde D. Stoltenberg) in Mitchell Silk, ed.,
Taiwan and International Trade and Investment: Law and Practice, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994, pp. 247-268
32. “The Southeast Asian Economies: Resilient Growth and Expanding Linkages,” (with Pang
Eng Fong) in Southeast Asian Affairs 1994, Singapore: Institute of South East Asian
Studies, 1994, pp. 20-33
33. “Singapore”, (with Pang Eng Fong and Ronald Findlay) in Ronald Findlay and Stanley
Wellisz eds., Five Small Open Economies, New York: Oxford University Press for the
World Bank, 1993, pp.93-137
34. “Singapore”, in Labor Standards and Development in the Global Economy, Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, 1990, pp. 73-95
35. “The Foreign Policy of Singapore”, in David Wurfel and Bruce Burton, eds., The Political
Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia, London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's
Press, 1990, pp. 124-145
36. “Poverty, Ideology and Women Export Factory Workers in Asia”, in Haleh Afshar and
Bina Agarwal, eds., Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia, London: Macmillan, 1990, pp.
212-233 (with Gillian H.C. Foo)
37. “Women's Work in Export Factories: The Politics of A Cause”, in Irene Tinker, ed.,
Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1990, pp.101-119
38. “Wage Policy in Singapore”, in Government Wage Policy Formulation in Less-Developed
Countries: Seven Country Studies, Geneva: ILO, 1989 (with Pang Eng Fong), pp. 75-101
39. “Social Welfare in Singapore”, in Kernial Singh Sandhu and Paul Wheatley, eds.,
Singapore: The Management of Success, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp.
171-197
40. “The Impact of Changes in the World Economy on Developing Countries”, in David
Gordon and Robert Berg, eds., Cooperation for International Development: U.S. Policy
and Programs for the 1990s, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989, pp. 21-
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41. “Technology Choice and Employment Creation: A Case Study of Three Multinational
Enterprises in Singapore”, in W. Chan Kim and Philip K.Y. Young, eds., The Pacific
Challenge in International Business, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987, pp. 157-194
(with Pang Eng Fong)
42. “Women Factory Workers in Asian Developing Countries: Some Dilemmas for
Multinational Employers,”, in W. Michael Hoffman, Ann E. Lange and David A. Fedo,
eds., Ethics and the Multinational Enterprise, New York: University Press of America,
1986, pp. 263-281
43. “Rising Trade Tensions: Asian Perspectives”, in Asian Issues 1985, Washington, D.C.:
University Press of America for the Asia Society, 1986, pp. 55-73
44. “Rapid Growth and Relative Price Stability in a Small Open Economy: The Experience of
Singapore”, in Vittorio Corbo, Anne O. Kreuger and Fernando Ossa, eds., Export- Oriented
Development Strategies: The Success of Five Newly Industrializing Countries, Boulder,
Colorado: Westview Press, 1985, pp. 79-110 (with Pang Eng Fong)
45. “Labour and Employment Issues in Export Processing Zones in Less-Developed
Countries”, in Eddy Lee, ed., Export Processing Zones and Industrial Employment in Asia,
Bangkok: ARTEP/ILO, 1984, pp. 53-67
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46. “Chinese Economic Activity in Southeast Asia: An Introductory Review,” in L.Y.C. Lim
and L.A.P. Gosling, eds., The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Vol. 1, Ethnicity and Economic
Activity, Singapore: Maruzen Asia, 1983, pp. 1-29
47. “Chinese Business, Multinationals and the State: Manufacturing for Export in Malaysia
and Singapore,” in Lim and Gosling, eds., 1983, Vol. 1, pp. 245-274
48. “Capitalism, Imperialism and Patriarchy: The Dilemma of Third World Women Workers in
Multinational Factories,” in June Nash and Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Women, Men
and the International Division of Labor, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York
Press,1983, pp. 70-91, reprinted in Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath, eds., Gender and
Development: Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches, 2 vols., UK: Edward
Elgar, 2001
49. “The Motor Vehicle Industry in Singapore,” in The Scope for South-East Asian
Subregional Cooperation in the Automotive Sector, Bangkok: ESCAP, 1982, pp. 201-216
50. “Women's Work in Multinational Electronics Factories,” in Rosalyn Dauber and Melinda
Cain, Women and Technological Change in Developing Countries, Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1981, pp. 181-190
51. “Women Workers in Multinational Corporations: The Case of the Electronics Industry in
Malaysia and Singapore,” in Krishna Kumar, ed., Transnational Enterprises: Their Impact
on Third World Societies and Cultures, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980, pp. 109-
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52. “Population Redistribution in Economic Context”, in L.A.P. Gosling and Linda Y.C. Lim,
eds., Population Redistribution: Patterns, Policies and Prospects, New York: UNFPA
Policy Development Studies No. 2, 1979, pp. 19-23
53. “Urban-to-Rural Population Redistribution,”in Gosling and Lim, eds., 1979, pp. 105-129.
54. “Population Redistribution and Economic Development,” in Gosling and Lim, eds., 1979,
pp.159-170
JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. “Fifty Years of Development in the Singapore Economy: An Introductory Review”, (Guest
Editor) Special Issue on A 50-Year Retrospective of Singapore’s Economic Development,
Singapore Economic Review Vol. 60 No. 3 (2015)
2. “Labor, Productivity and Singapore’s Development Model” with Pang Eng Fong, in Linda
Y.C. Lim (ed.), Special Issue on A 50-Year Retrospective of Singapore’s Economic
Development, Singapore Economic Review Vol. 60, No. 3 (2015)
3. “Beyond Gender: The Impact of Age, Ethnicity, Nationality and Economic Growth on
Women in the Singapore Economy”, in Singapore Economic Review Vol. 60, No. 2 (2015).
4. “Global Rebalancing 2.0” with Ronald Mendoza, in The World Financial Review,
November-December 2012, pp. 32-35, www.worldfinancialreview.com revised version of
article in VoxEU, 24September, 2012 http://voxeu.org/article/global-rebalancing-20
5. “Singapore’s Economic Growth Model – Too Much or Too Little?” in Ethos, Issue 6 (July
2009), pp. 36-42, Civil Service College, Singapore
6. “The Antisweatshop Movement: Rebuttal to Miller”, Challenge: The Magazine of
Economic Affairs, Vol. 46, No. 4 (July/August 2003), pp. 1-5
7. “State Power and Private Profit: The Political Economy of Corruption in Southeast Asia”,
Asia-Pacific Economic Literature Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 18-52 (November 2002) (with Aaron
Stern)
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8. “Terrorism and Globalization: An International Perspective”, Vanderbilt Journal of
Transnational Law Vol. 35 No. 2 (March 2002), pp. 703-710
9. “Southeast Asian Chinese Business: Past Success, Recent Crisis and Future Evolution”,
Journal of Asian Business Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 2000) Special Issue on Ethnic Chinese
Business in Southeast Asia, pp. 1-12
10. “An Overview of the Asian Financial Crisis”, Commentary in Journal of Asian Business
Vol. 15 No. 1 (Winter 1999), pp. 79-81
11. “Whose ‘Model’ Failed? Implications of the Asian Economic Crisis”, in The Washington
Quarterly Vol. 21, No. 3 (1998), pp. 25-36, reprinted in Cooperation South No. 2 (1998),
Special Issue on Globalization, pp. 134-144 (UNDP), and in MarkPlus Quarterly Oct.-
Dec.1998, pp. 42-48
12. “The Southeast Asian Currency Crisis and its Aftermath”, in Journal of Asian Business
Vol. 13 No. 4 (1997), pp. 65-83
13. “The Evolution of Southeast Asian Business Systems”, in Journal of Asian Business Vol.
12, No. 1 (1996), pp. 51-74, Special Issue on Asian Business Systems edited by Eleanor
Westney, reprinted in Hal Hill, ed., The Economic Development of Southeast Asia, UK:
Edward Elgar, 2001, and in Richard Whitley, ed., Competing Capitalisms: Institutions and
Economies, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002.
14. “The Emergence of a Chinese Economic Zone in Asia?”, Journal of Southeast Asia
Business, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1992), pp. 41-46
15. “The U.S., Japan and Southeast Asia: Emergence of a Pacific Economic Triangle”, Journal
of Southeast Asia Business, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall 1991), pp. 26-37
16. “Explaining the Decline of U.S. Investment in Southeast Asia”, Journal of Southeast Asia
Business, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 1991), pp. 90-93
17. “Labor Organization Among Women Workers in Multinational Export Factories in Asia”,
Journal of Southeast Asia Business, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 1990), pp. 1-8
18. “Singapore in Southeast Asia”, Journal of Southeast Asia Business, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall
1990), pp. 65-74
19. “U.S. Trade Relations with the New NICs of Southeast Asia,” Michigan Journal of
International Law, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Winter 1990), pp. 466-471
20. “High Tech and Labour in the Asian NICs,” Labour and Society, Vol. 14, 1989, pp. 43-57
(with Pang Eng Fong)
21. “The State and Private Capital in Singapore's Economic Development,” Political Economy,
Studies in the Surplus Approach, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1987), pp. 201-222
22. “Singapore's Success: The Myth of the Free Market Economy,” Asian Survey, Vol. 23, No.
6 (June 1983), pp. 752-764
23. “Foreign Labour and Economic Development in Singapore,” International Migration
Review, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Fall 1982), pp.548-576 (with Pang Eng Fong)
24. “Vertical Linkages and Multinational Enterprises in Developing Countries,” World
Development, Vol. 10, No. 7 (July 1982), pp. 582-595
25. “Industrial Policies for Malaysia in the 1980s,” Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, No. 5 (June
1982), pp. 136-144
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND WORKING PAPERS
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1. Rapporteur for Panel 5: Doing Business in Myanmar, in Myanmar Forum 2016,
Rapporteurs’ Report, pp. 28-31.
2. Rapporteur for Panel 4: Business Strategies for Indonesia, in Indonesia Forum 2015: New
Government, New Vision, New Opportunities, Rapporteurs’ Report, pp. 16-18
3. Comments on “Issues of Trade and Labor Standards in the WTO System,” in The
Emerging WTO and Responses from Asia, Joint Korea-U.S. Academic Symposium Vol. 7,
Washington, D.C., 1997, pp. 153-157
4. Korea Economic Institute of America, 1995
5. “Engines of Regional Integration in Asia,” in AFTA After NAFTA Joint Korea-U.S.
Academic Symposium Vol. 4, Washington, D.C.,1994, pp. 145-159
6. “The NICs and Near NICs in Asia: Economic and Political Transformation,” in Charles E.
Morrison, ed., Japan, China, and the Newly Industrialized Economies of East Asia,
Honolulu, Hawaii: East-West Center and Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Center for
International Studies, 1989, pp. 25-32
7. “Capital, Labor and the State in the Internationalization of High-Tech Industry,” in Mike
Douglass and John Friedmann, eds., Transnational Corporations and Urbanization in the
Pacific Rim, Los Angeles: Center for Pacific Rim Studies, University of California-Los
Angeles, Summer 1987
8. “Export-Led Industrialisation, Labour Welfare and International Labour Standards in
Singapore,” in Lionel Demery and Tony Addison, eds., Wages and Labour Conditions in
the Newly Industrialising Countries of Asia, London: Overseas Development Institute,
1987
9. Technological Change: Enhancing the Benefits, Vols. I and II, A Report by a
Commonwealth Working Group, London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 1985 (with M.G.K.
Menon and seven others)
10. “Multinational Export Factories and Women Workers in the Third World: A Review of
Theory and Evidence,” in Nagat M. El-Sanabary, ed., Women and Work in the Third
World: The Impact of Industrialization and Global Economic Interdependence, Berkeley,
California: Center for the Study, Education and Advancement of Women, University of
California, 1983, pp.75-90
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS & UNDER DEVELOPMENT
1. Higher Education and Economic Development: Lessons from Singapore for Developing
Countries (with Pang Eng Fong)
2. Co-editor with Hui Yew-foong of Singapore: The Future of a Legacy for ISEAS-Yusof
Ishak Institute (2019), and author of chapter on strategies for Singapore’s economic future.
AUTHORED ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES & WEBSITES *Used as teaching material in MBA and Executive Education courses
1. “The truth about the US-China clash of civilizations? There isn’t one,” South China Morning
Post 9 March 2019 https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2189244/truth-about-
us-china-clash-civilisations-there-isnt-one
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2. “Brexiteers should give up Singapore-on-Thames fantasy”, Bloomberg 13 February
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-13/post-brexit-u-k-can-t-turn-itself-
into-singapore-on-thames?srnd=opinion
3. “Chinese students at a US university were told to speak English. Simple racism, or something
more?” South China Morning Post 1 February https://www.scmp.com/week-
asia/opinion/article/2184540/chinese-students-us-university-were-told-speak-english-simple
4. “Slowing growth and market moodiness in the US”, Straits Times 22 January
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/slowing-growth-and-market-moodiness-in-the-us
5. “Meritocracy and its toll on our students” (with Pang Eng Fong), Straits Times 9 January
2019 https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/meritocracy-and-its-toll-on-our-students
6. “How Singapore’s obsession with university rankings only serves to hurt it” (with Pang Eng
Fong), South China Morning Post 21 December 2018 https://m.scmp.com/week-
asia/opinion/article/2178967/how-singapores-obsession-university-rankings-only-serves-
hurt-it
7. “Singapore risks seeing worthy local research sidelined in hurry to climb up global university
rankings” (with Pang Eng Fong), South China Morning Post 20 December 2018
https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2178662/singapore-risks-seeing-worthy-
local-research-sidelined-hurry-climb
8. “Singapore’s US200K starter salaries: Why education pays the price” (with Pang Eng Fong),
South China Morning Post 3 December 2018 https://www.scmp.com/week-
asia/opinion/article/2175473/singapores-us200k-starter-salaries-why-education-pays-price
5. “Psychological factors may explain resistance to more redistribution”, Straits Times 6
November 2018 https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/psychological-factors-may- explain-resistance-to-more-redistribution 6. “Weak yuan or strong US dollar”, Straits Times 16 October 2018 https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/weak-yuan-or-strong-us-dollar reprinted at East Asia
Forum 31 October 2018 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/10/31/weak-renminbi-or-strong-
us-dollar/
7. “Time for Singapore universities to switch gears”, Channel News Asia 6 October 2018
(with Pang Eng Fong) https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/singapore-
universities-need-reform-transformation-disruption-10790696
7. “Asking rich to contribute more is just practical”, Straits Times 14 August 2018
https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/asking-rich-to-contribute-more-is-just-
practical
8. “How to reduce inequality”, Straits Times 28 July 2018
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/how-to-reduce-inequality
9. “How inequality and low wages can stall growth”, Straits Times 21 July 2018
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/how-inequality-and-low-wages-can-stall-growth
10. “This trade war is about technology”, Straits Times 30 June 2018
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/this-trade-war-is-about-technology
11.“Can education fix inequality in Singapore?” Channel News Asia, 2 June, 2018 (with Pang
Eng Fong) https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/can-education-fix-growing-
inequality-in-singapore-10308796
12. “How Singapore can prepare for its Southeast Asian future” Business Times 30 May 2018
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/asean-business/how-singapore-can-prepare-for-its-
southeast-asian-future-linda-Lim
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13. “Preparing for Singapore’s Southeast Asian Future” ASEAN Inside/Out Edition 11, 25 May
2018
14. “China wins Round 1 in trade spat with US”, Straits Times, May 22, 2018
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/china-wins-round-1-in-trade-spat-with-us
15. “The BRI needs fewer Chinese characteristics”, East Asia Forum, May 9, 2018
http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2018/05/09/the-bri-needs-fewer-chinese-characteristics/
originally published as RSIS Commentary, in Straits Times and Myanmar Times
16. “Post-industrial capitalism calls for new economic model for Singapore”, Business Times
(Singapore) May 9, 2018 http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/post-industrial-
capitalism-calls-for-new-economic-model-for-singapore
17. “P.J. Thum’s treatment will dampen Singaporean academics’ willingness to speak out”,
Times Higher Education, April 21, 2018 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/pj-
thums-treatment-will-dampen-singaporean-academics-willingness-speak-out
18. “B&R: Bonanza or nightmare for Myanmar”, Myanmar Times April 11, 2018, same as
https://www.mmtimes.com/news/br-bonanza-or-nightmare-myanmar.html
19. “China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative: Future Bonanza or Nightmare?” Straits Times, March 31,
2018 http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-future-bonanza-or-
nightmare originally published as RSIS Commentary
20. “Singapore’s future lies in the past”, Straits Times, March 28, 2018
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/singapores-future-lies-in-the-past
21. “Trump’s protectionism: Method to the madness?” Straits Times March 21, 2018
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/trumps-protectionism-method-to-the-madness
22. “A Christmas ‘gift’ that will take a long time to pay for,” Straits Times, December 25, 2017
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/a-christmas-gift-that-will-take-a-long-time-to-pay-for
23. “Politics trumps economics in US trade policy,” Straits Times, Oct. 21, 2017
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/politics-trumps-economics-in-us-trade-policy
24. “The relentless pursuit of university rankings is creating a two-track system,” with Pang Eng
Fong, Channel News Asia, Oct. 21, 2017
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/commentary-the-relentless-pursuit-of-
university-rankings-is-9314918
25. “Singapore’s fling with global stars sidelines local talent”, with Pang Eng Fong,
Times Higher Education, August 24, 2017
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/singapores-fling-global-stars-
sidelines-local-talent
26. “Asian students still idolize Western professors” Wall Street Journal Asia July 27, 2017
https://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-students-still-idolize-western-professors-1501173242
27. “When academics speak their mind, society benefits”, Today, Singapore, June 16, 2017
http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/when-academics-speak-their-mind-society-
benefits
28. “Trump and gang’s trade deficit delusions could be disastrous for all and sundry,” Business
Times (Singapore) Feb. 22, 2017 http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/trump-gangs-
trade-deficit-delusions-could-be-disastrous-for-all-and-sundry*
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29. “Jobs of the future” with Benjamin Goh, Straits Times Jan. 25, 2017
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/jobs-of-the-future-get-set-to-create-them-for-yourselves
30. “How Trump’s policies could hurt the U.S. economy”, Straits Times Dec. 30, 2016
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/how-trumps-policies-could-hurt-the-us-economy
31. “Trump and the Singapore economy”, Straits Times Dec. 30, 2016
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/trump-and-the-singapore-economy
32. “China stands to win in Trump administration,” Detroit Free Press Nov. 29, 2016
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/11/29/china-stands-win-trump-
administration/94434310/
33. “The Trump economy,” Straits Times Nov. 18, 2016
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/the-trump-economy
34. “Why Michigan swung in Trump’s favour,” Straits Times Nov. 15, 2016
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/why-michigan-swung-in-trumps-favour
35. “Trade, technology and the U.S. Presidential Election,” Straits Times Oct. 18, 2016
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/trade-technology-and-the-us-presidential-election
36. “Is Brexit good or bad? Experts pick a side”, WalletHub August 4,
2016 https://wallethub.com/blog/brexit-good-or-bad/23523/#linda-y-c-lim,
37. “Brexit-What’s next?” June 24, 2016. http://michiganross.umich.edu/rtia-articles/brexit-
what-s-next
38. “The folly of Trumponomics”, Business Times Singapore, May 18, 2016
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/the-folly-of-Trumponomics
12 .“Competition will throw up best investors for Myanmar” Business Times Singapore, May 13,
2016 http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/competition-will-throw-up-best-investors-
for- Myanmar
13. “Time for Singapore to do right by its women”, Straits Times, April 22, 2016 (with Noeleen
Heyzer) http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/time-for-singapore-to-do-right-by-its-women
14. “Michigan voters driven by more than trade policies”, Straits Times, Singapore, March 16,
2016 http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/michigan-voters-driven-by-more-than- trade-policies
15. “How Singapore has grown – from a policy perspective”, Business Times Singapore, March 8,
2016 http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/how-spore-has-grown-from-a-policy-
perspective
16. “The myth of US-China economic competition,” The Straits Times December 16, 2015
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/the-myth-of-us-china-economic-competition 17. “Rise of China’s yuan is much ado about little,” The Conversation November 2, 2015,*
https://theconversation.com/rise-of-chinas-yuan-is-much-ado-about-little-48804 reprinted
in (among others)
18. http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/china-yuan-internationalization-world-economy/
19. http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/opinion/commentary-rise-chinas-yuan-much-ado-little/
20. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/rise-of-chinas-yuan-is-much-ado-
about-little-linda-lim
21. http://www.newsunited.com/rise-of-china-s-yuan-is-much-ado-news/19501614/
22. “Experts point the way forward for Singapore economic growth” Yahoo (Singapore)
September 3, 2015 https://sg.news.yahoo.com/experts-point-the-way-forward-for-
singapore-economic-growth-233918494.html
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23. “Fears of currency war overstated” Straits Times August 19, 2015
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/fears-of-currency-war-overstated
24. Plumbing the depths of currency controversies”, with Gunter Dufey in Straits Times
(Singapore) July 4, 2015*
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/plumbing-the-depths-of-currency-controversies
25. “Taking economic stock at 50”, Straits Times (Singapore) May 6, 2015*
26. “Domestic issues to top Jokowi’s priorities”, with Hui Yew-Foong, Business Times
(Singapore) May 8, 2015*
27. “Going beyond the ‘global city’ paradigm” Business Times (Singapore) February 9, 2015
http://business.asiaone.com/news/going-beyond-the-global-city-paradigm
28. “2014: The year monetary stimulus proved its worth”, Straits Times (Singapore) Dec. 27,
2014 http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/2014-the-year-
monetary-stimulus-proved-its-worth-20141227*
29. “Preserving a shared heritage”, Business Times (Singapore) Mar. 1, 2014
30. “Tracing Confucius’ bloodline in Singapore”, Straits Times (Singapore) Feb. 8, 2014
http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/case-you-missed-it/story/tracing-confucius-
bloodline-singapore-20140211
31. “What’s behind the turmoil in emerging markets?” with John Stuermer, Straits Times
(Singapore) Feb. 7, 2014*
32. “Bernanke’s Legacy” Monroe Street Journal Feb. 3, 2014*
33. ”Why Singapore is Not Iceland”, with James Cheng, Straits Times (Singapore) Jan. 24,
2014*
34. “‘Talent magnet’ status cements U.S. lead over China”, Straits Times (Singapore) Dec. 31,
2013
35. “Can slower growth lead to a stronger nation?”, Straits Times (Singapore) February 22,
2013, revised and reprinted in Low, ed. Hard Choices (above)
36. “How land and ;people fit in Singapore’s economy” Yahoo Singapore February 21, 2013
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/land-people-fit-singapore-economy-
025020996.html, revised, combined with 1 and reprinted in Low, ed. Hard Choices
(above)t
37. “Making peace instead of declaring currency wars”, Business Times (Singapore) February
15, 2013
38. “More stimulus ahead”, Straits Times (Singapore), January 21, 2013
39. “Target the yuan? It’s politics at play”, Straits Times (Singapore) October 22, 2011
40. “Don’t make a bogeyman out of U.S. dollar”, Straits Times (Singapore) August 27, 2011
(with Gunter Dufey)*
41. “Slowdown yes, but recession less likely”, Views on the Global Economy, Straits Times
August 17, 2011
42. “Printing money to push spending”, “Why other countries object to QE2”, “Possible
solutions for global imbalances”, Review Brief on Quantitative Easing, Straits Times
(Singapore), November 23, 2010*
43. “Of demographics, nationality and global rebalancing”, Straits Times (Singapore), August
3, 2010
44. “Save or spend? Two sides of the coin”, Debate with Prof. Tommy Koh in Straits Times
(Singapore), July 26, 2010
45. “Getting East Asia to save more, spend less”, Straits Times (Singapore), July 20, 2010
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46. “What’s up with the world economy?” Review brief, Straits Times (Singapore) July 11,
2010
47. “Euro Debt Crisis”, Straits Times (Singapore), May 27, 2010*
48. “Opening a window to the future”, Straits Times (Singapore), February 6, 2010
49. “Lessons from Michigan experience”, Straits Times (Singapore), June 16, 2009
50. “Why local entrepreneurs are vital”, Straits Times (Singapore), May 12, 2009
51. “Struggle for Obama to fulfill economic vows”, Straits Times (Singapore), November 18,
2008
52. “New era of caution and prudence”, Straits Times (Singapore), October 17, 2008
53. “Credit, credibility and political creed”, Straits Times (Singapore), October 14, 2008
54. “Shedding light on the factors”, Straits Times (Singapore), October 13, 2008
55. “Can Asia rescue the global economy”, YaleGlobal September 29, 2008, reprinted as “Asia
to the rescue?” South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), October 7, 2008
56. “When less is more”, Straits Times (Singapore), June 30, 2008 (with Geh Min)
57. “The China Bogey: The Facts Behind the Fears”, Journal of the International Institute,
University of Michigan, Winter 2008
58. “Ripple effect of U.S. economic woes”, Straits Times (Singapore), March 19, 2008
59. “Local trumps global in Thailand”, Journal of the International Institute, University of
Michigan, Fall 2007
60. “Can money ease loss of memories?” Straits Times (Singapore), June 21, 2007
61. “The costs of retiring too early”, Straits Times (Singapore), Aug. 23, 2006
62. “Singapore: Place or nation?”, Straits Times (Singapore) Jun. 19, 2006
63. “Tangled threads of protectionism-Part III”, YaleGlobal Online May 10, 2005
64. “China shows the way in a quota-free market”, YaleGlobal Online Feb. 22, 2005, reprinted
in Jakarta Post Feb. 23, Straits Times Feb. 23, Bangkok Post, Feb. 27
65. “Varsity rankings—they don’t tell all”, Straits Times (Singapore), Dec. 17, 2004
66. “Time for a liberal arts college”, Straits Times, Dec. 1, 2004 (with Pang Eng Fong and
Hong Hai)
67. “Accountability will stay”, Business Times, July 13, 2004 (with Pang Eng Fong)
68. “Let the market decide university admissions”, Business Times (Singapore), June 25, 2004
(with Pang Eng Fong)
69. “Who should pay for university education?” Business Times (Singapore), Apr. 1, 2004,
reprinted in Straits Times, Apr. 4, 2004
70. “Learning Chinese in America”, Straits Times (Singapore), Apr. 1, 2004
71. “Why China should not revalue its currency”, YaleGlobal Online, 9/12/03, 4 pp., reprinted
in Straits Times (Singapore), Sept. 14, 2003
72. “The way to evolve world-class universities here”, in Straits Times (Singapore) July 14,
2003, with Pang Eng Fong., revised version published as “Evolving great universities in
small and developing countries” in International Higher Education No. 33, Fall 2003, pp.
9-10
73. “When a student’s race is as important as his scores” in Straits Times June 28, 2003
74. “Is China eating everyone’s lunch, or enhancing it?” Straits Times June 21, 2003
75. “Corruption Southeast Asian Style” in The Journal of the International Institute Vol. No. 2
(Winter 2003), pp. 10-11, University of Michigan
76. “Don’t blame Singaporeans for expats leaving”, Business Times, Singapore, July 9, 2002
77. “Learning in the New Economy”, The Straits Times, Singapore, May 6, 2001
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78. “Globalization is the Best Welfare”, Far Eastern Economic Review Fifth Column, April
20, 2000, p. 36
79. “Capital controls not necessary”, Forum column of The Straits Times, Singapore, 6/26/99
80. “Capital controls a drag on Malaysian recovery”, The Straits Times, Singapore, 6/19/99
(abbreviated Congressional testimony of 6/16/99)
81. Statement of Dr. Linda Lim, in “Malaysia: Assessing the Mahathir Agenda”, Hearing
before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International
Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, June
16, 1999, Serial No. 106-37, pp. 16-18, carried on House website, on various Malaysia
websites, and in Electronic-Clipping of Competitive Edge June 17, 1999 as “Testimony of
Linda Lim” in Federal Document Clearing House Congressional Testimony
82. “Rebuttal” (on China trade statistics), Letters column in Far Eastern Economic Review
6/17/99, p. 69
83. “Recession unlocks Asian economies”, Viewpoint column in AutoAsia, May/June 1999,
pp. 52-53
84. “An overview of the Asian financial crisis”, Michigan Journalism Fellows Newsletter,
April 1999
85. “’Asian values’ idea: is it out?”, Straits Times (Singapore) 3/24/98
86. “Crisis and Conspiracy”, Fifth Column in Far Eastern Economic Review 3/19/98, p. 31
87. “Asian financial crisis”, International Institute Journal, University of Michigan, February
1998
88. “Region must be committed to self-reliant reforms”, Straits Times (Singapore) 1/27/98
89. “Attacking IMF and encouraging resistance can worsen situation”, Straits Times
(Singapore) 1/17/98
90. “Dr. Sachs, you are dead wrong”, and “The IMF cure”, Sunday Times (Singapore) 1/11/98
91. “Off-track on fast-track”, Washington Post 12/15/97 (with David Gordon), reprinted as
“Cheaper imports raise American incomes and living standards”, Straits Times (Singapore)
12/24/97
92. “The only answer for Asia is to embrace capital with care”, Sunday Times (Singapore)
11/9/97
93. “Asian currency crisis is not a disaster for American automakers”, Detroit News 9/25/97
94. “Asia 2000”, China Business Review March-April 1997, pp. 8-11
95. “The Trouble with Tariffs”, Detroit Free Press, June 1, 1995.
96. “The Storm Over Rights in Asia”, Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, May 16, 1994, p. 2B
97. “The Asian Frontier", Michigan Today, December 1993, pp. 1, 3, 4
98. “Born in Singapore, Living in America”, Singapore, January 1992, pp. 9-11
99. “ASEAN's Business Future”, Business Week International Edition Special Advertising
Supplement, November 1991
100. “Becoming a Region”, The China Business Review May-June 1990, pp. 24, 25, 26, 28, 29,
32 (with Clyde Stoltenberg)
101. “NICs' Trading Patterns Shifting As Imports Mount, Exports Slow”, Asian Wall Street
Journal Weekly, Trade Supplement, September 12, 1988, p. 10B
102. “Are We Back to Steady Growth?”, Solidarity (Manila), No. 119, July-September 1988,
Special Issue on Singapore, pp. 11-16
103. “End of U.S. GSP Benefits for Four Asian Nations is Unlikely to Help Shrink American
Trade Gap", Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, Trade Supplement, April 4, 1988, p. 4B
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104. “Singapore's Heavy-Handed Detentions”, Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, August 17,
1987
105. “High-tech and High Hopes in the Asian NICs”, Singapore Business Yearbook 1985, pp.
17-23 (with Pang Eng Fong)
106. “Making the Economy Sparkle”, The Straits Times (Singapore), August 9, 1985 (with Pang
Eng Fong)
107. “Labour Strategies for Meeting the High-Tech Challenge: The Case of Singapore”, Euro-
Asia Business Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1984), Special Issue on Asian Labour, pp. 17-21
(with Pang Eng Fong)
108. “The Labour Train in Southeast Asia: Stopping At All Stations”, Euro-Asia Business
Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1984), Special Issue on Asian Labour, pp. 17-21 (with L.A.P.
Gosling)
109. “A New Order with Some Old Prejudice”, Far Eastern Economic Review, January 5, 1984,
Special Issue on Women in Asia, pp.37-38
110. “Political Economy of a City State”, Singapore Business Yearbook 1981/82, pp.7 ,9 ,12 ,15
19, 21 ,25 ,27 ,29 ,33 (with Pang Eng Fong)
111. “Restructuring in Singapore: Issues and Outlook”, Singapore Banking and Finance
1981/82, pp. 58-62 (with Pang Eng Fong)
112. “Women in the Singapore Economy”, Commentary, Journal of the National University of
Singapore Society, Vol. 5, No. 1, Special Issue on Women, October 1981, pp. 9-38
113. “Labouring Towards A New Stereotype”, The Sunday Times (Singapore), August 9, 1981
(with Pang Eng Fong)
114. “Singapore's Foreign Workers: Are They Worth the Costs” Asian Wall Street Journal,
August 4, 1981 (with Pang Eng Fong)
115. “The Making of A New Singaporean”, The Sunday Times (Singapore), July 26, 1981 (with
Pang Eng Fong)
116. “Engineers: Facts and Fallacies”, Singapore Business, May 1981, pp. 61, 63 and June 1981,
pp. 53, 55-57 (with Pang Eng Fong)
117. “Charting A Course for Industry in the Eighties”, ASEAN Business Quarterly, Second
Quarter 1981, pp. 3-6
118. “Do Multinational Companies Exploit Women Workers in Developing Countries?”,
ASEAN Business Quarterly, Fourth Quarter 1980, pp. 29-31
119. “Electronics sector shows resilience”, The Financial Times, London, 8 October 1986
120. “The Sun’s in Your Eyes, Mr. Tan”, New Nation, Singapore, 19 December, 1976, p. 23
(with Jacqueline Foo)
121. “Impact of Singapore school system”, New Nation, Singapore, 9 July, 1976, p. 9 and “Too
much is expected of schools”, New Nation, Singapore, 20 July, 1976, p. 9 (with Pang Eng
Fong)
122. “The School System and Social Structure in Singapore”, Commentary, Journal of the
University of Singapore Society (June 1976), pp. 43-47
BOOK REVIEWS
1. Foreword to Living With Myths in Singapore, ed. Loh Kah Seng, PJ Thum and Jack Chia,
Singapore: Select Books, 2017
2. Book review of Making Sense of Life @/& SMU: A partial guide for the clueless
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ed. Pang Eng Fong with Lai Foong Ming and Favian Wong, Singapore: Ethos Books 2017,
published as “:Nothing is taboo in collection of essays by these graduates” Business Times
(Singapore) March 9, 2017 http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/nothing-is-taboo-in-
collection-of-essays-by-these-graduates
3. Book review of Yuen Yuen Ang, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Ithaca and London:
Cornell University Press 2016, published as “The evolution of capitalism, China style” in
The Sunday Times (Singapore) January 15, 2017
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/the-evolution-of-capitalism-china-style 4. Book review of Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, eds., Chinese Circulation: Capital,
Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia, Durham and London: Duke University Press,
2011, in Asian Journal of Social Science Vo. 43, Nos. 3-4, July 2014, pp. 481-483.
5. Book review of Pang Eng Fong ed., (Almost) Uniquely Singapore: 18 Objects, Singapore:
Select Books, in Straits Times August 26, 2013, as “S’pore’s Objects of Identity: Some
things borrowed, some things new”
6. Book review of Nitin Pangarkar, High Performance Companies: Successful Strategies from
the World’s Top Achievers, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, in Business Times (Singapore),
March 9, 2012, as “Strategies from the real world”.
7. Book review of Michael J. Dunne, American Wheels, Chinese Roads, Singapore: John
Wiley & Sons, in Business Times (Singapore), November 11, 2011 as “GM’s win-win story
in China”
8. Book review of Lim Mah Hui and Lim Chin, Nowhere to Hide: The Great Financial Crisis
and Challenges for Asia, Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 2010. In Straits
Times (Singapore), June 1, 2010 as “Financial crisis: Warning of what lies ahead”.
9. Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison, eds., The Political Economy of South-
East Asia: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. In
10. International History Review Vol. 21, No. 3 (September 1999), pp. 836-7
11. Marto Rutten, Asian Capitalists in the European Mirror, Amsterdam: VU University Press
for Centre for Asian Studies, 1994. In Crossroads, An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 89-90
12. Vo Nhan Tri, Vietnam's Economic Policy Since 1975, Singapore: Institute of Southeast
13. Asian Studies, 1990. In Journal of Southeast Asia Business, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 1990), pp.
99-101
14. Janet W. Salaff, State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring an Industrial Society, Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. In Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 1
(February1990), pp. 217-219
15. Aihwa Ong, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia,
Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1987. In Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.
47, No. 4 (November 1988), pp. 945-947
16. You Poh Seng and Lim Chong Yah, eds., Singapore: Twenty-Five Years of Development,
Singapore: Nan Yang Xing Zhou Lianhe Zhaobao, 1984. In Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.
46, No. 2 (May 1987), pp. 466-467
17. Hafiz Mirza, Multinationals and the Growth of the Singapore Economy, New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1986. In Pacific Affairs, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Spring 1987), pp. 149-150
18. Brian Wawn, The Economies of the ASEAN Countries, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983;
Arun Senkuttuvan, MNCs and ASEAN Development in the 1980s, Singapore: Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, 1981; Narongchai Akrasanee and Hans Christoph Rieger, eds.,
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ASEAN-EEC Economic Relations, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1982.
In Journal of Asian Studies XLIV (May 1985), pp. 689-691
19. Lim Mah Hui, Ownership and Control of the One Hundred Largest Corporations in
Malaysia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1981; Donald R. Snodgrass, Inequality and
Economic Development in Malaysia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. In Journal
of Asian Studies XLII (May 1983), pp. 722-725
20. Jacob Meerman, Public Expenditure in Malaysia, Who Benefits and Why, New York:
Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1979.In Journal of Asian Studies XL (Nov.
1980), pp.199-201
21. Chan Heng Chee, The Dynamics of One-Party Dominance - The PAP at the Grassroots,
Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1976. In Far Eastern Economic Review, August
1976
UNPUBLISHED TEACHING MATERIALS 1. “Trade and Competitiveness”, Teaching Note for Strategy 503 The World Economy MBA
core course, Fall 2007 onwards
2. “Notes on the Mexican Peso Crisis”, School of Business Administration, University of
Michigan, February 1995
3. “Superjuice in Southeast Asia: A Negotiation Simulation”, School of Business
Administration, University of Michigan, March 1994 (with William Longhurst)
4. “Toward An Asian Economic Bloc? AFTA, APEC and All That”, School of Business
Administration, University of Michigan, November 1993
MEDIA CITATIONS since 2000 (not complete)
(Self-authored articles are in Publications above. Pre-2000 citations not included here.)
2019
1. Ellie Bothwell, “Academic freedom: Why do protections not apply to university leaders?”
Times Higher Education 14 March
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/academic-freedom-why-do-protections-not-
apply-university-leaders?
2. Jason Lemon, “Trump’s former economic adviser slams administration over trade war, says
tariffs ‘hurt eh economy’”, Newsweek 14 March https://www.newsweek.com/trump-
economic-adviser-trade-war-tariffs-economy-1363598
3. Kathleen F., “Hiring international academics serves to reinforce conservatism in Singapore,
says scholar”, 2 February https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2019/02/11/hiring-international-
academics-serves-to-reinforce-conservatism-in-singapore-says-scholar/
4. Ellie Bothwell, “Foreign academics ‘less likely’ to speak up for academic freedom,” Times
Higher Education 6 February https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/foreign-
academics-less-likely-speak-academic-freedom
5. Rupa Shenoy, “The US may face obstacles in the global race for Chinese students”, PRI’s
The World, 5 February https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-02-05/us-may-face-obstacles-
global-race-chinese-students
6. Martino Tan, “Today says “sorry for the errors” after taking down article on academics
quitting NUS and NTU”, Mothership 31 January https://mothership.sg/2019/01/today-say-
sorry-nus/
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7. Cecilia Barria, “Cómo Singapur pasó de ser una isla pobre a uno de los países más ricos del
mundo (y qué amenaza enfrenta ahora” BBC Mundo/BBC World Service 29 January
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-47032379
8. Scott Jaschik, “Are Global Rankings Damaging Universities?” Inside Higher Ed 28 January
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/01/28/article-singapore-sparks-
debate-about-whether-rankings-may-be-hurting 9. Katia Moskvitch, “Why is Dyson moving to Singapore? It’s not just Brexit”, WIRED UK 24
January https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dyson-moving-hq-to-singapore
10. Ellie Bothwell, “Singapore legal challenge will ‘chill academic freedom’”, Times Higher
Education 23 January https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/singapore-legal-
challenge-will-chill-academic-freedom
11. Martino Tan, “NUS seeking “legal advice” as Today article on academics quitting “affected
its reputation””, Mothership 20 January https://mothership.sg/2019/01/nus-today-reputation-
lawsuit/?fbclid=IwAR1R0I1Brj78LAElVe7zKI2VP0Qwu2gmbHcIlHsUY-AuzPvuuUDzI-
mVCyQ
12. Sandra Davie, “Academics stand their ground over comments on NUS, NTU, after comments
taken down”, Straits Times 20 January
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/academics-stand-their-ground
13. Staff Writer, “Academics stand by comments on NUS, NTU made in Today article that was
removed”, Yahoo News Singapore, 20 January https://sg.news.yahoo.com/academics-stand-
comments-nus-ntu-made-today-article-removed-094159164.html
14. Kelly Ng, “Opaque policies, fixation with KPIs, rankings: Why arts and humanities
academics quit NUS, NTU”, Today Online 6 January
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/opaque-policies-fixation-kpis-rankings-why-arts-
and-humanities-academics-quit-nus-ntu
15. Jim Zarroli, “Indications of China’s Slowing Economic growth Concern US
Investors”, NPR Morning Edition 4 January
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/682133737/indications-of-chinas-slowing-economic-
growth-concerns-u-s-investors
2018
1.Danny Quah, “Singapore’s US200K university salaries are worth every penny”, South China
Morning Post 17 December https://m.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2178083/singapores-
us200k-university-salaries-are-worth-every-penny
2. Sandra Davie, “Degree of concern: Are Singapore universities chasing rankings?”
Straits Times 8 December https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/degree-of-
concern-are-unis-chasing-rankings
16. Scott Tong. “US companies want more than China’s free market gestures”, NPR
Marketplace, November 28 https://www.marketplace.org/2018/11/28/world/us-
companies-want-more-chinas-free-market-gestures
17. Kevin Hong, “The poor do not care about inequality”, Straits Times November 12
https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/the-poor-do-not-care-about-income-
inequality
18. Yasmine Yahya, “A tale of two rankings”, Straits Times November 1
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/a-tale-of-two-rankings
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19. Jim Zarroli, “Chinese yuan continues to tumble in value against US dollar,” NPR 31
October https://www.npr.org/2018/10/31/662696769/chinese-yuan-continues-to-
tumble-in-value-against-u-s-dollar
20. Kalinga Seneviratne, “’Rethink role of HE beyond rankings’, says minister”,
University World News October 3, Issue No. 523
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20181003174150435
21. Woo Jun Jie, “Singapore and Singaporeans lose when universities chase after world
rankings”, Channel News Asia September 30
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/nus-ntu-university-rankings-
times-higher-education-singapore-10766750
22. Shashank Bengali, “How famously uptight Singapore became a playground for Asia's 'crazy
rich'”, Los Angeles Times September 3, http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-singapore-crazy-
rich-20180903-story.html
23. Nitin Pangarkar, “Focus on right measures of income inequality”, Straits Times August 8
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/focus-on-right-measures-of-income-inequality
24. Chua Mui Hoong, “Inequality is not just unfair, it’s also bad economics”, Straits Times July
22 https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/inequality-is-not-just-unfair-its-also-bad-
economics?xtor=CS3-18
25. Sina.com, “US media says US government doesn’t understand China”, July 14
https://k.sina.cn/article_2375086267_8d90f0bb02000f3xb.html?sinawapsharesource=newsap
p&from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=1&http=fromhttp&wm=13500_0055
26. Jim Zarroli, “China is better able to withstand a trade war than in the past”, NPR 12 July
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628315251/u-s-and-china-trade-war-which-one-can-endure-
the-pain-the-better
27. Darren Chong, “Trade war is about one man’s election promises”, Straits Times 3 July
(Forum letter) https://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-on-the-web/trade-war-is-about-
one-mans-election-promises
28. Jason Lemon, “Donald Trump’s Tariffs Have Europe Cozying Up to China”, Newsweek 25
June http://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariffs-have-europe-cozying-china-994356
29. Quote in Denise Chong, “When I say, I am the ‘maid’”, Straits Times 13 June
30. Interview (quote) by Scott Tong, NPR Marketplace Radio on Trump-Kim summit in
Singapore, 11 June http://wwno.org/post/singapore-seems-wise-choice-unprecedented-us-
north-korea-summi
31. Interview (quote) by Aaron Schrank, NPR Marketplace Radio on Trump and WT0, 1 June
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/06/01/economy/trump-blocking-appointments-wto-
judges-here-s-why
32. Interview by Yalda Hakim on Impact, BBC World TV News, on US-China trade deal. May
21, 10:15 am EST
33. Interview by Jon Donnison on BBC World Service News Hour on US-China trade deal, May
20 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w254720zqn1
34. Yojana Sharma, “Academic freedom faces ‘grave threat’ from parliament”, University World
News May 15 http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20180515163318165
35. Yasmine Yahya, “Lim Hng Kiang: Longest-serving MTI Minister who prefers talking trader
to getting personal”, Straits Times April 27, https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/lim-hng-
kiang-longest-serving-mti-minister-who-prefers-talking-trade-to-getting-personal
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36. Kelly Ng, “Thum can’t make political points then hide being academia: Charles Chong”,
Today Online April 17 https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/thum-cant-make-political-
points-then-hide-behind-academia-charles-chong
37. Ravi Velloor, “Towards a Belt and Road Initiative paved with empathy”, Straits Times April
13, http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/towards-a-bri-paved-with-empathy
38. Joanna Seow, “170 academics sign open letter expressing concern about academic freedom
in Singapore, Straits Times April 13, http://www.straitstimes.com/politics/170-academics-
sign-open-letter-expressing-concern-about-academic-freedom-in-singapore
39. Wong Pei Ting, “More than 130 academics sign open letter in support of historian Thum
Ping Tjin, academic freedom”, Today Online April 10/11
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/more-130-academics-sign-open-letter-support-
historian-thum-ping-tjin-academic-freedom
40. Wong Horng Ginn “S’pore should not lose sight of immediate neighbours”, Straits Times
Forum letter, April 2 http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/letters-in-print/spore-should-not-
lose-sight-of-immediate-neighbours
41. Danson Cheong, “Scholar says China’s BRI needs an image change”, Straits Times March
27, http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/scholar-says-chinas-bri-needs-an-image-change
42. Charissa Yong, “Focus on business links in S-E Asia, says prof”, Straits Times March 22
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/focus-on-business-links-in-s-e-asia-says-prof
43. Live TV interview on Xi Jinping China constitutional change, PrimeTime Asia, Channel
News Asia, March 20, 7:10 pm Singapore
44. Eric Lawrence, “Are trade wars easy to win? Experts don’t think so.” Detroit Free Press,
March 3, 2018 https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2018/03/03/trump-claim-trade-
wars-disputed/390224002/
45. Sophie Schimansky, “Handelspolitik: Trump gegen alle – und die USA” Deutsche Welle
30 January http://www.dw.com/de/handelspolitik-trump-gegen-alle-und-die-usa/a-
42361063?maca=de-EMail-sharing
33.Thorsten Schroeder, “Das Whirlpool-Gesetz”, Zeit.de 24 January
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/2018-01/usa-whirlpool-zoelle-donald-trump
34. Interview by Razia Iqbal on Trump tariffs, BBC News Hour on NPR, 23 January
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vr1l9zt7stq minutes 30-36
35. Cherian George, “Singapore’s powerhouses neglect local intellectual life”, Times Higher
Education 11 January https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/singapores-powerhouses-
neglect-local-intellectual-life
2017
1. Keith Laing, “Carmakers rattled by Trump NAFTA demands,” Detroit News Oct. 16
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/10/16/carmakers-rattled-trump-nafta-
demands/106721306/ revised as “Trump NAFTA demands could have unintended effects,”
Oct. 19 http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/10/17/trump-nafta-demands-
unintended-effects/106752830/
2. David Kiley, “Trump’s anti-NAFTA position will drive business into the arms of
Democrats”, Forbes Oct. 6 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2017/10/06/trumps-
anti-nafta-position-will-drive-business-into-the-arms-of-democrats/#1da07b529637
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3. Keith Laing, “NAFTA renegotiation off to rocky start”, Detroit News, August 21
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/08/21/nafta-renegotiation-nafta-
renegotiation-rocky-start/104837660/
4. Keith Laing, “NAFTA redo could lead to tariffs on US-built cars”, Detroit News, August 15
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/08/14/nafta-renegotiation-tariffs-
american-automakers/104608430/
5. Andy Uhler, “Ford announces job cuts as it seeks to balance short-term profits with long-
term goals:, NPR Marketplace Radio, May 16
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/16/business/ford-announces-job-cuts-seeks-balance-
near-term-profits-long-term-goals
6. Aaron Schrank, “A key Trump administration goal is securing trader agreements”, NPR
Marketplace Radio, April 24 https://www.marketplace.org/2017/04/24/economy/securing-
trade-agreements-key-trump-administration-goal
7. Yeri Baek, Interview on the Southeast Asian Market, Economy Chosun, Korea, April 19
8. Chidanand Rajghattal, “American industry leaders hammer Trump’s H-1B order”, Times of
India, April 19. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trumps-h1b-hacking-gets-
hammered/articleshow/58264990.cms
9. Jed Kim, “Japanese giant Toshiba says its future is in question” NPR Marketplace Radio,
April 11 https://www.marketplace.org/2017/04/11/business/japanese-giant-toshiba-says-its-
future-question
10. Adam Allington, “As Chinese investment in U.S. grow, so do concerns” NPR Marketplace
Radio, April 5 https://www.marketplace.org/2017/04/05/economy/chinese-investment-us-
grow-so-do-concerns 11. David Kiley, “Trump’s ‘Help’ for Harley is Hurting the Bike Maker”, Forbes March 1
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2017/03/01/why-trumps-help-for-harley-is-hurting-the-
bike-maker/2/#58a8006351ee
12. Jude Webber, “Mexico’s central bank lifts benchmark rate to 6.25%”, Financial Times
February 9 https://www.ft.com/content/55715efa-1d2c-3389-9eab-78791dc07aba
13. Jake Smith, “Come hell or high water: Can Great Lakes shipping make a resurgence?”
WBEZ Chicago February 8 https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/the-tumultuous-
history-of-great-lakes-shipping/bf2c3960-2de7-4ece-ac7c-96ce07fa2866
14. Interview on US-UK FTA, NAFTA etc. on “Up All Night With Dutton”, BBC 5 Live Radio,
January 28, 1:30 am (UK)
15. David Kiley, “Prices of small cars will go up with Trump’s 20% tax”, Forbes January 27
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2017/01/27/prices-of-small-cars-go-up-with-
trumps-20-tax-but-so-will-popularity-in-swing-states/#5f0b2666717d
16. Interview on TPP and NAFTA on Paul W. Smith show, WJR radio Detroit, January 26 9:21
am www.wjr.com/paulwsmith/
17. Keith Laing and Ian Thibodeau, “Trump tries hitting ‘reset’ with Detroit automakers”,
Detroit News, January 24 http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-
motors/2017/01/24/trump-big-three-autos/96982646/
18. Gary ?, on prospects for a UK-US free trade deal, BBC Radio Scotland, January 16
19. Adam Allington, “China sees opportunity as TPP fails”, NPR Marketplace Radio, January 4
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/01/03/economy/us-protectionism-opens-door-chinese-
trade-pact
2016
27
1. Greg Gardner, “GM shares fall on reports of antitrust penalty in China”, Detroit Free Press
Dec. 14 http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2016/12/14/general-motors-
shares-china/95427376/
2. Tom Kirsher and Paul Wiseman, “GM shares fall on reports of antitrust penalty in China”,
Associated Press Dec. 14 http://www.wtoc.com/story/34050940/gm-shares-fall-on-reports-
of-antitrust-penalty-in-china
3. Steven Porter, “Starbucks will expand in China—and it looks like a smart idea,” Christian
Science Monitor Dec. 7 http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2016/1207/Starbucks-will-
expand-in-China-and-it-looks-like-a-smart-idea
4. Andy Uhler, “Trump’s stand on tariffs divides Republicans,” Marketplace Radio, NPR, Dec.
6 http://www.marketplace.org/2016/12/06/world/president-elect-trumps-trade-tariff-talk-or-
tweet
5. “How Trump’s economic policies may affect Michigan,” Video interview on MLive, Dec. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzx6JU-zxDs
6. “Tips for millennials to navigate the future economy,” Video interview on MLive, Dec. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMI8P-W16i0
7. David Kiley, “Why Ford set Trump up to declare a fake victory on U.S. jobs,” Forbes, Nov.
18 http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2016/11/18/behind-fords-fake-deal-with-
trump/#72432bc553ee
8. Nancy Marshall-Genzer, “Surging dollar complicates Trump job creation plans”,
Marketplace Radio, NPR, Nov. 16 http://www.marketplace.org/2016/11/16/world/surging-
dollar-complicates-trump-job-creation-plans
9. “What to expect from President Trump,” Nov. 9 https://michiganross.umich.edu/rtia-
articles/what-expect-president-trump
10. “What’s at stake in the U.S. election when it comes to trade”:, Oct. 26 Video interview
http://michiganross.umich.edu/rtia-articles/whats-stake-us-election-when-it-comes-trade
11. Interview on CETA, BBC 5 Live Radio, October 24
12. Terry Kosdrosky, “Policy pitches for the new president,” Dividend Fall 2016
http://michiganross.umich.edu/alumni/dividend/fall2016/policy-pitches-new-president
13. Adam Payne, Business Insider Oct. 24-27 in various articles
http://www.businessinsider.com/ceta-brexit-eu-canada-belgium-wallonia-trade-expert-
analysis-2016-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/trade-expert-ceta-belgium-eu-canada-brexit-2016-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-eu-and-canada-ceta-trade-deal-eu-hopes-wallonia-
belgium-comments-update-2016-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/eu-canada-ceta-summit-cancelled-belgium-wallonia-brexit-
2016-10
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/australia-has-just-dealt-a-massive-blow-to-the-uk-
governments-brexit-plans/ar-AAjmFQm?li=BBoPWjQ
http://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-liam-fox-eu-australia-free-trade-deals-2016-10
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/eu-canada-ceta-summit-cancelled-belgium-wallonia-
brexit-2016-10/
14. Patrick Thibodeau, “South China Sea conflict could be IT’s Black swan”, Computerworld
August 15, 2016 http://www.computerworld.com/article/3107217/it-industry/south-china-
sea-conflict-could-be-it-s-black-swan.html
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15. Jake Maxwell Watts and Nopparat Chaichalearmmongkol, “Thai vote heralds economic
stability if nor democracy,” Wall Street Journal August 9, 2016
http://www.wsj.com/articles/thai-vote-result-heralds-economic-stability-if-not-democracy-
1470735485
16. Jeevan Vasagar, “Why Singapore’s kids are so good at maths”, Financial Times July 22,
2016. https://www.ft.com/content/2e4c61f2-4ec8-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc
17. Michael Cohen, 1320 WILS Capital City Recap (Lansing, Michigan), live radio interview
on Brexit, June 25, 2016 6:45 pm http://www.1320wils.com/podcasts/the-capital-city-recap
18. Live TV interview on Brexit, on “First Look Asia” program, Channel News Asia, June 25,
2016, 7:15 am
19. http://michiganross.umich.edu/rtia-articles/brexit-what-s-next
20. Sally Herships, “Japan’s population is plunging, so where are the babies?” Marketplace
Radio, NPR, April 20 2016 http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/18/world/babies
21. Live TV interview on Myanmar, on “First Look Asia” program, Channel News Asia, April
1, 2016, 7:15 am
22. Rodion Ebbighausen ,“US-ASEAN summit to tout ‘symbolic power’”, Deutsche Welle
February 12, 2016 http://www.dw.com/en/us-asean-summit-to-tout-symbolic-power/a-
19042497
23. Michael Cohen 1320 WILS Capital City Recap (Lasing, Michigan),live radio interview on
China’s economic growth January 20, 2016, 6:50 pm
http://www.1320wils.com/podcasts/the-capital-city-recap
24. Eric Bellman and Sara Schonhardt, “Companies look past Indonesian terror attacks” Wall
Street Journal Jan. 15, 2016 http://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-look-past-indonesian-
terror-attacks-1452885719
25. Jim Zarolli, “China views untapped consumer market as key to stimulating economy”,
National Public Radio, January 12, 2016 http://www.npr.org/2016/01/12/462821814/china-
views-untapped-consumer-market-as-key-to-stimulating-economy
2015
1. Khong Yuen Foong, “The reality of US-China competition”, Straits Times (Singapore),
December 30, 2015
2. Greta Guest, “Forecast 2016: Prof. Linda Lim on Chinese Currency”, Michigan News
December 7, 2015 https://michiganross.umich.edu/rtia-articles/forecast-2016-prof-linda-
lim-chinese-currency
3. Ivy Li, “RMB to enter SDR later this month”, Australian New Express Weekly, November
21, 2015
4. Cary Huang, “Game on: The battle of the trade pacts”, South China Morning Post (Hong
Kong), November 17, 2015
5. Irina Mitropoulou, TO VIMA (Greece), Comment on Myanmar election results, November
15, 2015
6. http://udn.com/news/story/7992/1280773-
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E8%88%AA%E5%8D%97%E6%B5%B7%E5%90%88%E6%B3%95 Comment on South
China Sea issue in United Daily News (Taiwan) October 30, 2015
7. http://www.worldjournal.com/3503505/article-
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D%E5%8A%A0%E5%93%A5 Comment on South China Sea issue in World Journal (US)
October 29, 2015
8. Jake Maxwell Watts, “Singapore election to test shift on immigration” Wall Street Journal
September 3, 2015 http://www.wsj.com/articles/singapore-election-to-test-shift-on-
immigration-1441262953
9. Svetlomira Gyurova, Capital Weekly (Bulgaria) August 28, 2015
http://www.capital.bg/politika_i_ikonomika/sviat/2015/08/28/2599321_panikata_e_po-
goliama_ot_apokalipsisa/ “Panic is greater than economic crisis Made in China seem
exaggerated. The risk is that safeguards are already exhausted”
10. Adrienne Hill, Marketplace, NPR, August 26, 2015
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/apple-iphone-and-chinese-economy
11. World Journal (US) August 25, 2015 http://goo.gl/WKNhoi http://goo.gl/KDaPAO
12. Cary Huang, “It’s decision time by the sea for China’s Communist Party, South China
Morning Post (Hong Kong), 30 July/August 5 http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-
politics/article/1844849/its-decision-time-sea-chinas-communist-party
13. Alex Bitter, “Can we finally stop worrying about Greece?” www.TheStreet.com 7/13/15
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13216495/3/can-we-finally-stop-worrying-about-
greece.html
14. Jorge N. Rodrigues, “Singapore After the Economic Miracle” Expresso, Portugal, April 1
http://expresso.sapo.pt/singapura-depois-do-milagre=f918002
15. Jim Zarroli, “How Singapore became one of the richest places on earth,” National Public
Radio, March 29 http://www.npr.org/2015/03/29/395811510/how-singapore-became-one-
of-the-richest-places-on-earth
16. Jorge N. Rodrigues, “From a Third-World to First-World Country in One Generation”,
Expresso, Portugal, March 28
17. Jake Maxwell Watts, “Lee Kuan Yew’s Son Faces A Changing Singapore”, Wall Street
Journal, March 27 http://www.wsj.com/articles/lee-kuan-yews-son-faces-a-changing-
singapore-1427447170?KEYWORDS=lee+kuan+yew
18. P.R. Venkat and Jake Maxwell Watts, “Singapore to Carry Forward Lee Kuan Yew’s
Business-Friendly Legacy”, Wall Street Journal, March 26
http://www.wsj.com/articles/singapore-to-carry-forward-lee-kuan-yews-business-friendly-
legacy-1427348473
19. Jessica Huang, interview on Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy, www.worldjournal.com, March 23
http://goo.gl/6wuCer
20. Rachel Chang, “Raising wages”, Straits Times, March 21
21. Radha Basu, “Money worries remain for older women”, Straits Times, March 8
22. Rujun Shen and Masayuki Kitano, “Singapore Economy/Budget Preview”, Reuters
February 18
23. Fiona Chan, “Time to change from being a global city to a unique regional one?” Straits
Times 27 January 2015
24. Olivia Siong, “Small states must aim to remain relevant”, Channel News Asia 26 January
2015 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/small-states-must-aim-
to/1616752.html
25. Laura Elizabeth Philomin, “For Singapore, being extraordinary is a strategic imperative”
Today 28 January 2015 http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/spore-being-extraordinary-
strategic-imperative-veteran-diplomat?singlepage=true
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26. Interview on Channel News Asia report on Singapore Perspectives, January 26, 2015
2014
1. “What Cuba changes mean to travelers, including cigars” Detroit Free Press, Dec. 17,
2014 by Ellen Creager http://www.freep.com/story/travel/2014/12/17/cuba-travel-changes-
big/20534873/
2. “Myanmar Struggles With Democratic Transition As Obama Makes Second Trip” by
Morgan Winsor, International Business Times, November 12 2014
3. http://www.ibtimes.com/myanmar-struggles-democratic-transition-obama-makes-second-
trip-1721098
4. “China seeking help during APEC from US, Canada, Australia in global hunt for corrupt
officials”, Associated Press, Nov. 8, 2014
5. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/china-seeking-help-during-apec-us-canada-australia-
083645894.html
6. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-seeks-wests-fight-graft-apec-
26773992
7. “Alibaba did well in China but is unlikely to replicate this success elsewhere”, Epoch
Times October 3, 2014 http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/996385-alibaba-did-well-in-
china-but-is-unlikely-to-replicate-this-success-elsewhere/
8. “Experts urge rational judgment of investment in Alibaba”, Xinhua Washington DC Sept.
20, 2014 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2014-09/20/c_133658531.htm
9. Vikram Khanna, “Thinking hard about Singapore’s choices” Business Times and Straits
Times 29 August 2014 http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-
report/singapore/story/thinking-hard-about-spores-choices-20140829
2013
1. “Eleven questions with Strategy Professor Linda Lim”, interview by Daniel Gonzalez-
Kreisberg in Monroe Street Journal, October 7, 2013
2. Scott Cendrowski, “China’s hostage-taking is a relic” in Fortune/CNN Money 6/26/13
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/26/chinas-hostage-taking-is-a-
relic/?section=money_news_international
3. Lydia Pillis, “A lot of CEOs get taken hostage in China”, Washington Post blog 6/25/13
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/25/a-lot-of-ceos-get-taken-
hostage-in-china/
4. Ang Yiting, interview in Lianhe Zaobao Singapore 21 April (in Chinese)
http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp130421_013.shtml
5. Jessica Cheam and Janet Heng, “Hire locals first”, Straits Times 30 March
6. Joy Fang, “Executive focus society in Singapore ‘is bizarre”, My Paper 25 March
7. Rachel Chang, “Dons give different takes on White Paper”, Straits Times 25 March
8. “Western vs. Asian Business” in Myanmar Times (translated into Burmese)
9. Interview on Myanmar International (TV)
10. Interview in Myanmar business magazine (translated into Burmese)
11. Feng Zhengkun, “Well-known figures sign appeal over NTU lecturer” 5 March
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/well-known-figures-sign-appeal-over-ntu-lecturer
2012
1. Interview on BBC Burmese News service, on lifting of Western sanctions on Burma’s
economy 4/18/12
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2. Interview by Jonathan Standing of Reuters 1/15/12, quoted in “Taiwan’s MA wins vote but
faces tough second term” Channel News Asia 1/15/12, Daily Times Online 1/16/11, New
Sabah Times Online (Malaysia) 1/16/12, “Taiwan’s China opening gets voter support”,
Straits Times Online (Singapore) 1/15/12, “What next for Taiwan’s economic links?”
Today Online (Singapore) 1/15/12, “2012 Elections: China willing to work with Taiwan”
Taipei Times Online 1/15/12, “Beijing, US greet Ma win with sigh of relief” Standard
Online (Hong Kong) 1/15/12, “Ma’s victory a vote for rapprochement” Oman Observer
Outline 1/15/12
2011
1. “Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on Michigan”, panelist with Micki Maynard for
Robin Young’s “Here and Now” program for National Public Radio, co-sponsored by
Michigan Radio and Ross School, 10/26/11
2. Interview by Tracy Samilton on Michigan Radio “Snyder: First trade mission about
building relationships” 9/23/11
3. Tan Hui Yee, “Public sector’s backroom” and “Train for job, train for life”, Straits Times
(Singapore) 9/24/11
2010
1. Alan Wheatley, “IMF turns on the charm in Asia”. New York Times 7/19/10
2. “Smart energy policy may need brave but unpopular decisions” www.eco-business.com
4/20/10
3. Various articles by Hermawan Kartajaya in Jawa Pos (Indonesia), April 2010
4. “Daya Tawar Indonesia terhadap China Kuat” Sinar Harappan (Indonesia), 4/10/10
5. http://blog.veritasprep.com/2010/03/six-terrific-professors-at-michigan.html
6. Morning Edition of All Things Considered, National Public Radio, on trade protectionism
against China in US Congress, 3/5/10
7. “A brave new growth path”, Straits Times (Singapore), 2/2/10
8. Interviews on Voice of America re US-China trade, China in Southeast Asia, etc. (no dates)
2009 (not updated)
1. “China takes baby step to reduce dependence on the dollar” Christian Science Monitor
7/28/09
2. “Tiger, tiger burning bright” CNBC June 2009
3. “Rope in private sector to help chart economy”, Business Times (Singapore) 5-25-09
4. “Why local entrepreneurs are vital”, Straits Times
5. “A professor of strategy”, “New growth model beyond Jack-of-all-hubs needed”, “Why it
can’t be more of the same”, Straits Times (Singapore), 3/11/09
2008
1. Tommaso Pavone, “The Asian financial crisis and the present: A discussion with
Professors Linda Lim and Allen Hicken”, interview in Michigan Journal of International
Affairs, December 2008, pp. 29-31
2. Clarissa Oon, “Cost and Effect”, Straits Times (Singapore) 11/1/08
3. “Is Singapore trying to excel in too many areas?” Business Times (Singapore) 10/25/08
4. “Rethink S’pore growth model, says don” Straits Times (Singapore) 10/25/08
5. Matt Miller, “Reversal of fortune”, The Deal Newsweekly 10/10/08
2007 (not identified)
2006 (not complete)
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1. “Javier Teruel, “In international business, everybody is a minority”, Monroe Street Journal
Vol. 59, Issue 5, 10/9/06, p. 14
2. Liaw Wy-Cin, ”Newsweek ranks NUS 30th
in the world”, Straits Times 8/16/06
3. “Apathetic, materialistic? Not Singaporean”, Straits Times Forum 6/23/06
4. Lehrer News Hour, 4/20/06 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/jan-june06/china_4-
20.html
5. NPR Marketplace Radio, 4/14/06
6. Thomas Bray, “UM recklessly finds Coca-Cola guilty until proven innocent”, Detroit News
1/4/06
2005
1. Lisa Napoli segment on Toyota pricing, Marketplace Radio, NPR, April 26
2. Natalie Liu segment on China-Australia free trade area, Voice of America, April 18
3. Linda Lim, “Backlash in West after China’s Textiles Boom,” The Business, April 10, 2005
http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/departments/communications/clips//Apr05/Lim4.10.pdf
4. William Mellor, “Singapore Inc’s First Lady”, Bloomberg Markets, March 2005
2004
1. Janadas Devan, “All the world’s a university”, Straits Times, December 24
2. Mark Friedman, “Wal-Mart’s Chinese connection blossoming, but for how long?”
Arkansas Business, December 20
3. Peter Stenger, “Demystifying international trade’s impact on the U.S.”, the journal (a
publication of Stout, Risius, Ross), Fall 2004
4. Morgana Campos, “Asian investments will be concentrated in the region”, “China will
become an important foreign investor”, “Investment from developed country brings more
technology”, “Latin America will be little attractive to Asians”, Dinheiro Vivo (Live
Money), Brazil, November 25
5. Morgana Campos, “Asia: Integration aims to counterbalance American hegemony”, “Asia:
Japan and China will contend for leadership in the region”, “Asia: Taiwan will concentrate
political attention in the region”, Dinheiro Vivo (Live Money), October 12
6. Interviewed by BBC World Service on US elections and the economy, October 12
7. Roderick Benns, “Wal-Mart good for developing nations: business professor”, Axiom
News, July 7
8. Roderick Benns, “Professor says ‘ethnocentric perspective’ impacts view of sweatshops”,
Axiom News, July 6
9. Mary Wong letter, Business Times, July 6.
10. “Trading up? Free trade deals offer a world of possibility for entrepreneurs”, Entrepreneur
No. 6, Vol. 32, p. 30, June 1, 2004 by Joshua Kuriantzick
11. Johan Norberg, “Three cheers for global capitalism”, The American Enterprise, June 2004,
pp. 20-27 (11 pp.)
12. “Next 10 years are best for India”, Financial Express, India, 3/23/04, p. 1
2003
1. P.Y. Chin, ‘Revaluing yuan cuts both ways’, New Straits Times 11/2/03 p. 16
2. China’s currency, Lehrer News Hour 9/3/03
3. Pacific Radio/KQED 9/4/03 on developing country trade
4. Michele Lee, Sportswear International, May 2003 on ethics in the global apparel industry
5. Rebecca Buckman, “China isn’t the only alluring partner for investors”, Wall Street
Journal, May 8, 2003, pp. A15-16.
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6. Robyn Meredith, “Even with SARS, globalization marches on”, www.forbes.com, 4/11/2-3
7. Rick Haglund, “Mend fences or Michigan will be the loser”, Ann Arbor News, March 31, p.
C1 and other Booth newspapers
8. Rebecca Buckman, “War may imperil Asian exporters”, Asian Wall Street Journal, March
20, p. A1
2002 1. George Melloan, “Workers of the world are shedding their chains”, Wall Street Journal,
September 3, 2002, p. A1
2. Robyn Meredith, “From Rocks to Riches”, Forbes August 12, 2002, pp. 101-102
3. James Lee, “Engaging the giant”, Asian Business February 2002, p. 36
2001
1. Michigan Today and Michigan Review October 2001 reporting on my participation in
International Institute’s Post-9/11 Symposium on Terrorism and Globalization
2. Mike Hudson, “What’s next for the economy?” Detroit News September 23, Business p. 1
3. Eric Ellis, “Inching toward transparency” Fortune Magazine, Asian edition, August 13,
p.14
4. William Mellor, Asiaweek, “The risks of playing it safe”, Asiaweek May 4, p. 30
5. Jonah Goldberg, “Sweatshop Chic: the no-nothings find a cause”, National Review 4/2/01
6. Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood, “Clothes Encounters: activists and economists clash
over sweatshops”, Lingua Franca March 2001
2000
1. Nayan Chanda, “The tug of war for Asia’s best brains”, Far Eastern Economic Review
11/9/00, pp. 38-43
2. Janet Kidd Stewart, “Voters take stock of candidates’ ideas for the economy”, Chicago
Tribune 9/3/00
3. Interview on globalization on Canadian Public Radio, 4/17/00
4. Barbara Crossette, “Making room for the poor in a global economy”, New York Times
Sunday 4/16/00, section 4, p. 1-2
5. Pacifica Radio, New York, live talk show interview on globalization, March 30, 2000
LECTURES, CONFERENCE, SEMINAR & CORPORATE PRESENTATIONS 2001-2018 only (pre-2000 presentations not listed here) In Ann Arbor except where noted
otherwise.
2018
1. “Preparing for Singapore’s Southeast Asian Future”, Fireside Chat with Prof. Linda Lim at
NTU RSIS, April 4
2. “States, Markets, Technology and the Future of Post-Industrial Capitalism: Implications for
Singapore”, Breakfast Dialogue with Institute for Policy Studies (NUS) Corporate
Associates, moderated by Manu Bhaskaran, Orchard Hotel, Singapore, April 2
http://lkyspp2.nus.edu.sg/ips/newsletter/ips-corporate-associates-breakfast-dialogue-states-
markets-technology-and-post-industrial-capitalism
3. “Academic Freedom, Innovation and Identity”, Dean’s Seminar on Singapore in Focus, Yale-
NUS College, March 28
4. “Challenges Facing China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative” and “China’s Rise, ASEAN’s Future”,
Maybank ASEAN Conference, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Singapore, March 27
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5. “Challenges Facing China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative”, NTU RSIS Seminar, Singapore,
March 26
6. Convenor (not present), Symposium on South Africa for PICC, Ross Executive Education,
Ann Arbor, March 22-23
7. “Back to the Future: Singapore, China and Southeast Asia”, Distinguished Public Lecture for
NTU RSIS at ntu@one-north, Singapore, March 21
8. “US Trade, Investment and Immigration Policy”, NTU RSIS Seminar, Singapore, March 16
9. Convenor and Chair, Integration Session, Symposium on Indonesia for PICC, Ross
Executive Education, Ann Arbor, March 9-10
10. Convenor and Chair, Integration Session, Symposium on Russia for PICC, Ross Executive
Education, Ann Arbor, February 22-23
2017
1. Talk for Indigo Salon, Asian and Asian-American Faculty of the U-M College of
Literature, Sciences and the Arts, 11/8 https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/indigo/2017/11/14/linda-
lims-indigo-presentation/
2. Michigan Ross Executive Education custom program for People’s Insurance Company of
China (PICC), sessions on international economics and business, 9/29, 10/13, 11/3, 11/10
3. Michigan Ross Executive Education custom program for China Development Bank on
“Industrial Upgrading and Financial Innovation”, Faculty co-director and instructor,
6/19/17-6/30/17
4. “Asia in the Era of Trump: Democracy, Security and Trade”, Last and Welcome Lecture,
Global MBA Program, Ross School of Business, 6/16/17
5. “Singapore’s economic development and education needs”, Keynote speech, Strategic
Planning Retreat, Methodist Girls’ School, Singapore 6/1/17
6. “Singapore’s economy”, World Bank, Singapore, 5/31/17
7. “International Trade, Investment and Financial Sector Development in Emerging Markets”,
Temasek Foundation and Monetary Authority of Singapore for Asian Financial Regulators
at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 5/26/17
8. “Globalization” sessions for ICBC (China) Program at Ross Executive Education, 4/19/17
9. “External and Domestic Constraints to Singapore’s Committee for Future Economy Report
Strategies”, Future of Singapore (FOSg), Singapore, 3/4/17
10. “The Impact of President Trump on Singapore and Southeast Asia”, University of
Michigan Alumni of Singapore (UMAS), 3/2/17
2016
1. “The Singapore Development Story: Myths and Realities”, Singapore and Southeast Asia
Forum, Harvard University, Harvard Asia Center and Harvard Kennedy School, 11/17/16
https://www.facebook.com/SGSEAForum/
2. Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows seminar, “Trade, immigration, inequality and the U.S.
presidential election”, 10/11/16
3. Michigan Ross Executive Education custom program for China Development Bank on
“Industrial Upgrading and Financial Innovation”, Faculty co-director and instructor,
6/20/16-7/1/16
4. Conference Organizer, Moderator and Rapporteur for Panel on Business Strategies for
Myanmar, Myanmar Forum, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore and U-M Center for
Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 5/20/16
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5. Guest lecture on “Singapore’s economic development”, Monetary Authority of Singapore
(MAS) Academy, February 23, 2016
6. Discussant, “Elder care policy options in Singapore”, 2016 Budget Recommendations of the
Association of Women in Action and Research (AWARE), Singapore, February 17, 2016
7. Speaker on panel discussion at book launch of Linda Y.C. Lim (ed.), Singapore’s Economic
Development: Retrospection and Reflection, Wee Kim Wee Centre, Singapore management
University, February 3, 2016
8. Guest lecture on “What Americans think about Singapore and Singaporeans” in
undergraduate social science class on “Singapore in the World: the World in Singapore”,
Singapore Management University. February 2, 2016
2015
1. Faculty Co-Director and Instructor for several sessions for Ross Executive Education
custom program on “Industrial Upgrading and Financial Innovation”, for China
Development Bank, Ann Arbor, 11/9/15-11/20/15
2. “What’s happening in China and what it means for us”, Economic Dinner Group, Ann Arbor,
11/16/15
3. “Indonesia’s Economic Development” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University
of Michigan, 9/24/15
4. Speaker on Regional Affairs panel, U-M Pan-Asia Alumni Reunion 2015, Singapore
5/16/15 (also advisor to organizers)
5. Conference Organizer, Moderator and Rapporteur for Panel on Business Strategies for
Indonesia, Indonesia Forum, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and U-M
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 5/15/15
6. MBA Last Lecture presentation, RSB 4/13/15
7. Talk on Singapore to Global Initiatives BBA Study-abroad class, RSB 3/13/15
8. Moderator, ASEAN Panel, 25th
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB 1/31/15
9. Presenter at IPS Perspectives 2015: Choices Conference Institute for Policy Studies,
National University of Singapore, 1/26/15
2014
1. ICBC (China) “MBA bootcamp”, Ross Executive Education 12/2/14
2. “Challenges Facing Global Capitalism”, Economic Dinner Group, Ann Arbor, 9/22/14
3. Panel on “Capital Markets” at U-M Pan-Asian Alumni Reunion, Hong Kong, 5/24/14
4. “Asia in the Global Economy” and “Asian Business Systems”, The Executive Program,
Michigan-Ross Executive Education, RSB 4/29/14
5. “Globalization”, Go Blue Rendezvous Classroom Experience, RSB 4/11/14
6. Discussion Leader, “What’s Wrong With Singaporeans?” U-M Singapore Students’
Association, RSB 4/9/14
7. Guest Lecturer, “Singapore’s Economy”, Pol. Sci. 389 “Political Economy of East Asia”
4/1/14
8. Panel Moderator, China, 24th
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB 2/8/14
2013 1. Guest Lecturer, “Economic Development in Southeast Asia, Asian Studies 501
“Introduction to Southeast Asia” CSEAS 11/20/13“
2. Economics Presentation, “Government, Business and the Economy: Lessons from the
Asian ‘Developmental State’, or the Limits of Utopia”, Economic Dinner Group, 11/18/13
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3. Panel Moderator, “Women and Leadership in India”, 5th
annual India Business Conference,
RSB 11/1/13
4. Panel Moderator, General Management Conference, 10/11/13
5. Western vs Asian Business: Which is More Competitive?” U-M Alumni, Shanghai, 6/14/13
6. “Asian Companies and Competition” Executive Program, RSB 5/10/13
7. “ The Global Economy” Executive Program, RSB 4/30/13
8. “Globalization”, Go Blue Rendezvous Classroom Experience, RSB 4/12/13
9. “Singapore’s Population Policy”, with Prof. Paul Cheung of NUS, U-M Alumni
Association of Singapore 3/24/13
10. “Western vs Asian Business: Which is More Competitive?” Union of Myanmar Federation
of Chambers of Commerce and Industry 3/20/13 and Yangon Institute of 9. Economics,
Yangon University 3/19/13 Yangon, Myanmar
11. Panel Moderator, 23rd
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB, 2/1-2/13
2012 1. Michigan Business Women’s Women in Leadership Conference, 11/30/12-12/1/12, Panel
Moderator and Lunch Participant/Discussant
2. “Gender, Race, Nation and State in the Economic Development of Southeast Asia”,
Southeast Asian Studies 501, 11/1/12
3. “Outsourcing from the Inside: Four Decades of Myth & Reality At Home and Abroad”,
Economic Dinner Group, Ann Arbor, 9/24/12
4. Executive Program sessions on Europe, U.S. and Asia, Michigan Ross Executive Education
5/13-5/15/12
5. Panel discussion on “State Capitalism” with Minyuan Zhao and Brad Farnsworth, EMBA
Alumni Weekend, Michigan Ross School of Business 5/5/12
6. “Globalization”, Go Blue Rendezvous MBA Classroom Experience, Michigan Ross School
of Business 4/13/12
7. “Factory Workers in Southeast Asia” for SEAS 215 Contemporary Social Issues in
Southeast Asia, LS&A 4/3/12
8. “Business in China” for MPP class on Chinese Policy, Ford School of Public Policy,
3/30/12
9. “Local Policy Causes of Income Inequality in Singapore”, Institute for Policy Studies,
National University of Singapore 3/15/12
10. “What’s Up for the World Economy? And What Does It Mean for Singapore?”, Hewlett-
Packard Alumni Association, Singapore 3/14/12
11. “’Foreign Talent’ and Singapore’s Economic Growth Model”, National University of
Singapore Development Office, 3/13/12
12. Panel Moderator, 22nd
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB 2/10-11/12
2011
1 “The U.S., China and a Changing Global Economy”, Distinguished Lecture Series, Osher
Lifelong-Learning Institute, U-M, 12/13/11
1. Moderator and panelist, China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, Center
for Chinese Studies, 11/16/11
2. “Globalization and Economic Development in Southeast Asia”, Southeast Asian Studies
501 Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies,11/9/11
3. “Culture and Economic Growth: Perspectives from Asia”, Center for International and
Comparative Studies 101 Introduction to International Studies, 11/8/11
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4. “The U.S., China and a Changing Global Economy”, Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows,
U-M, 11/1/11
5. “Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on Michigan”, panelist with Micki Maynard for
Robin Young’s “Here and Now” program for National Public Radio, co-sponsored by
Michigan Radio and Ross School, 10/26/11
6. “China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia”, Asian Law Society, U-M Law
School, 10/20/11
7. “China and the World Economy”, Economic Dinner Group, 9/12/11
8. “What’s Up With the World Economy? What is China’s Role? And What Does the Rest of
the World Think?” U-M Ross Alumni, Shanghai, 8/30/11
9. “Sustainable Buildings for an Energy-Resilient Singapore”, National University of
Singapore, 6/17/11
10. “Global Macroeconomic Rebalancing and Asia: How Should Singapore Move Forward?”
U-M Alumni of Singapore, 3/26/11
11. “Challenges for the Singapore Economy” Civil Service College, Singapore, 3/25/11
12. “Global Macroeconomic Rebalancing: Implications for Singapore and Asia”, Civil Service
College, Singapore, 3/24/11
13. “China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia”, Research Colloquium, Asian
Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines 3/18/11
14. “Trends in Management Education: Implications for Asia”, Roundtable Discussion, Asian
Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines 3/17/11
15. Discussant, Panel on the Philippine Economy, Asian Institute of Management, Manila,
Philippines 3/17/11
16. “Currency Wars on an Era of Asian Economic Leadership?”, Public Lecture, Asian
Institute of Management, Philippines 3/16/11
17. “Beyond Gender: The Impact of Age, Ethnicity, Nationality and Economic Growth on
Women in the Singapore Economy”, Conference on “Women’s Choices, Women’s Lives:
Shaping the Next 25 Years”, Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)
and National University of Singapore Society, NUS 3/5/11
18. Panel Moderator, 21st annual Asia Business Conference, RSB, 1/28-29/11
19. “Globalization and Labor Standards”, guest lecture in CICS 101/UC 145 Introduction to
International Studies, 1/27/11
20. “From Rice to Chips: Making a Living in Southeast Asia”, guest lecture in UC 215
Contemporary Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 1/11/11
2010
1. Panel convener and speaker, “Contemporary China”, Economic Dinner Group, Ann
Arbor, 12/13/10
2. “The G-20, Global Macroeconomic Imbalances, and Currency Wars”, U-M Knight-
Wallace Journalism Fellows 11/18/10 and Economic Dinner Group, Ann Arbor, 11/15/10
3. “Globalization and Economic Development in Southeast Asia”, guest lecture in SEAS 501
Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, 10/20/10
4. “Globalization and Labor Standards”, guest lecture in CICS 101/UC 145 Introduction to
International Studies, 10/7/10
5. “Meeting the Challenge of Asia’s Rise”, Executive Program, Ross School of Business,
5/13/10
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6. “Asia’s Role in the Post-Crisis Global Economy”, Philip Kotler Center-Jakarta CMO Club
and Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 4/8/10
7. “Asia’s Role in World Economic Recovery: A Macro Perspective”, U-M Alumni of
Indonesia, Jakarta, 4/7/10
8. Three talks at Graduate Business School, Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan
9. Panel on “Smart Energy in Singapore’s Economic Strategies Committee Report”, Energy
Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, 3/22/10
10. “From Rice to Chips: Making a Living in Southeast Asia”, guest lecture in UC 215
Contemporary Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2/18/10
11. “Globalization of Labor Standards: What Can International Organizations Do?” guest
lecture in CICS 101/UC 145/Geography 145 Introduction to International Studies, 2/16/10
12. Panel moderator, 20th
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB, 2/4-2/5/10
13. “Economic Development in Southeast Asia and the Philippines”, guest lecture in PubPol
IEDP course going to the Philippines, 1/27/10
14. “Role of Foreign Investment” and “Lessons from Southeast Asia”, guest lectures in
PubPol534 Economic Development Policy (course of the late Katherine Terrell), 1/25/10
and 2/2/10.
15. “China-ASEAN Economic Relations”, Global Policy Perspective Symposium on Key
Issues in Southeast Asian Development, International Policy Center, Gerald R. Ford
School of Public Policy, 1/22/10
2009
1. “How the financial meltdown heats up U.S.-China tensions”, Knight-Wallace Journalism
Fellows, University of Michigan, 11/24/09
2. “The national political economy roots of global macroeconomic imbalances and financial
crisis: the view from China and Singapore”, Economic Dinner Group, Ann Arbor, 11/16/09
3. “Globalization and Economic Development in Southeast Asia: A Thirty-Year Perspective”,
SEAS 501 Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies 10/21/09
4. “From Rice to Chips: Making a Living in Southeast Asia”, for Midwest International and
Intercultural Institute, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, 8/19/09
5. Talk on Singapore’s economy at International Women’s Forum, Singapore, 5/26/09
6. Comments on “Volatility in the Singapore Economy” by Prof. Lee Soo Ann, National
University of Singapore Alumni, Singapore, 5/22/09
7. Panel on “Global Financial Crisis, US Universities and Business, and Singapore”,
University of Michigan Alumni Association of Singapore, 5/21/09
8. “Meeting the Challenge of Asia’s Rise”, Executive Program, Ross School of Business,
5/13/09
9. Lunch discussion on financial crisis for University of Michigan Alumni Association of
Singapore, 4/17/09
10. “Singapore’s Economic Growth Model”, Institute for Policy Studies, National University
of Singapore, 6/3/09
11. “The Global Financial Crisis, the U.S. and Asia”, talk to senior management of Wearnes
Bros. Ltd. (WBL), 26/2/09
12. “How should the role of government in Singapore’s economy change?” Economic Society
of Singapore at Singapore Management University, 24/2/09
13. “Beyond Growth Metrics” and “Place or Nation Revisited”, Civil Service College,
Singapore, 18/2/09
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14. Panel Moderator, 19th
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB, 2/6-7/09
15. “From Rice to Chips: Making a Living in Southeast Asia”, for SEAS 215/UC 215
Contemporary Social Issues in Southeast Asia undergraduate course, 1/27/09
16. “Is Asia still rising? Repercussions of recession”, Southeast Asia Forum and Contemporary
Asia Seminar Series, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford
University, 1/20/09
2008
1. “The Global Financial Crisis and Asia”, U-M Association for Chinese Economic
Development, 11/21/08
2. “Globalization and Financial Crisis: Learning to be just another country, or why Barack
Obama cannot keep his promises to the American people”, U-M Knight-Wallace
Journalism Fellows, 11/11/08
3. “Singapore’s Economic Growth Model – Too Much or Too Little?”, Singapore Economic
Policy Conference 2008, Singapore Center for Applied Policy Economics, Department of
Economics, National University of Singapore, 10/24/08
4. “Can Asia Save America from its Financial Troubles?” U-M Michigan Economic Society
Faculty Seminar 9/26/08
5. “Asia’s Changing Role in the Global Economy”, Economic Dinner Group, Ann Arbor,
9/15/08
6. “Rethinking Globalization? Financial Turmoil, the U.S. Presidential Election, and Asia”,
U-M Alumni Association of Singapore, 7/12/08
7. Panelist for Global Economics Roundtable, McKune Memorial Library, Chelsea,
Michigan, 5/18/08
8. Panelist for Forum on “Sources of Growing American Animosity Toward a Rising China”,
U-M Roosevelt Institution, 4/1/08
9. “Globalization and Growth” 2/12/08 and “From Rice to Chips: Making a Living in
Southeast Asia” 2/14/08, for SEAS 215/UC 215 Contemporary Social Issues in Southeast
Asia undergraduate course
10. Moderator, 2 Panel sessions, 18th
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB 2/1-2/08
11. “Imperialism and Global Trade in Southeast Asia” 1/31/08; “Global Labor Standards and
the Sweatshop Debate, 3/6/08; for UC 245/Geog 215 Global Interdependence
undergraduate course
2007
1. Keynote Speech, Women in Consulting Conference, RSB 12/7/07
2. “Asian Financial Crisis Ten Years Later, and the Link to U.S. Financial Market Turmoil”,
Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows, 11/29/07
3. “Southeast Asia’s Economies Ten Years After the Asian Financial Crisis”, guest lecture in
SEAS 501 Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, 9/27/07
4. “Asian Financial Crisis Ten Years Later, and the Link to U.S. Financial Market Turmoil”,
Economic Dinner Group, Ann Arbor, 9/17/07
5. “U.S.-China Relations and the Implications for Southeast Asia”, U-M Alumni Association
of Singapore, 7/21/08
6. “U.S.-China Relations and the Implications for Southeast Asia”, Center for Chinese
Studies, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 7/13/07
7. “Managing the Challenge of Asia’s Rise”, Executive Program, RSB Executive Education
5/15/07 and 9/29/07
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8. Moderator and discussant, Conference on Thai Studies, Embassy of Thailand to the United
States, Washington, DC, 5/9-10/07
9. “Introduction” 1/4/07; “From Rice to Chips: Making a Living in Southeast Asia” 1/30/07;
“Globalization and Growth” 3/13/07; for SEAS 215/UC 215 Contemporary Social Issues in
Southeast Asia undergraduate course
10. “Imperialism and Global Trade in Southeast Asia” 2/1/07;Global Labor Standards and the
Sweatshop Debate, 3/8/07; for UC 245/Geog 215 Global Interdependence undergraduate
course
11. Moderator, 1 Keynote and 2 Panel sessions, 17th
annual Asia Business Conference, RSB
2/2-3/07
12. “The Chinese Ripple Effect”, Michigan Difference Seminars, West Palm Beach Florida
2/6/07 and Naples, Florida, 2/8/07.
2006
1. “The Complicity of International Capital Market Actors with Crony Capitalism and State
Authoritarianism in Asia,” Economic Dinner Group 12/18/06
2. “Are There Lessons from Southeast Asia’s Economic Development?” guest lecture in
SEAS 501 Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, 10/5/06
3. “Thailand”, Wharton Executive MBA 8/25/06
4. “Singapore: Place or Nation”, discussion seminar, Institute for Policy Studies, Singapore
7/3/06
5. “Globalization and Global Cities: Does ‘Being Singaporean’ Matter,” Majulah Connection,
Singapore, 6/27/06
6. “Singapore: Place or Nation”, discussion seminar, Institute for Defense and Strategic
Studies, Nanyang Technological University 6/26/06
7. “Singapore: Place or Nation”, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 6/8/06
8. “The Challenge of Asia’s Rise for American Business”, Visteon Lunch-and-Learn for
Asian Awareness Month 5/24/07
9. “Managing the Challenge of Asia’s Rise”, Executive Program, RSB Executive Education,
5/11/06
10. “Singapore: Place or Nation. Implications for Economy, Society and Identity”, Second
Annual Singapore Lecture Series, Brown University, 4/15/06
11. World Economy sample class session, Go Blue Rendezvous, UM RSB 4/7/06
12. “Globalization’s Travails”, UM Knight-Wallace Fellows, 3/14/06
13. “Global Labor Standards and the Sweatshop Debate”, UM Global Interdependence
undergraduate course, 3/9/06
14. “Business and Economic Development in Southeast Asia: Help or Hindrance?” Center for
Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois 3/3/06
15. “Globalization: End of a Global Age?” Graduate School Colloquium, Northern Illinois
University, Dekalb, Illinois 3/2/06
16. “Southeast Asia: Between Chinese Tiger and American Wimp”, Economic Dinner
17. Group, UM, 2/20/06
18. “Imperialism and Global Trade in Southeast Asia”, UM Global Interdependence
19. undergraduate course 1/24/06
20. “Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Keynote speech at 50th
annual Michigan
Council of Social Studies and Great Lakes Regional Social Studies Conference, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, 1/30/06.
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21. Moderator, 2 Keynote and 2 Panel sessions, 16th
Annual Asia Business Conference, UM
RSB, 1/20-21/06
2005
1. “Labor in Export Manufacturing”, Labor Rights in the Global Economy undergraduate
course 10/26/05
2. “China Profile”, Wharton Advanced Management Program 10/24/05
3. “Meeting the New Challenges of Globalization”, RSB Reunion 2005, 10/7/05
4. “Globalization and its Impacts”, Global Project Design Course, Engineering, 9/27/05
5. “Is ASEAN one market?” GLOBE, Jakarta, Indonesia, 7/11/05
6. “Emerging Trends in Asia”, Pacific Power, Portland, Oregon, 6/19/05
7. Panelist, “Global Textile Trade Post-MFA”, Symposium, UM Law School, 3/31/05
8. “Global Labor Standards and the Sweatshop Debate”, Global Interdependence
undergraduate course, 3/8/05
9. Moderator, ASEAN Panel, 15th Asia Business Conference, 2/5/05
10. “Imperialism and Global Trade in Southeast Asia” Global Interdependence undergraduate
course, 1/25/05
11. “Globalization, Regionalization and Economic Development in Southeast Asia” Yangon
Institute of Economics, Yangon University, Myanmar, 1/20/05
2004
1. “Malaysian Economy and Business”, Ambassadorial Seminar for Ambassador Chris
Lafleur, U.S. State Department, Washington DC, 12/9/04
2. “Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Undergraduate Research Opportunity
Program, University of Michigan, 11/17/04
3. “How Asian governments are feeding American profligacy and funding the Iraq War”,
Knight-Wallace Fellows, University of Michigan, 10/14/04
4. “Economic Development and Business in Southeast Asia: How do “Tigers in Trouble”
Manage to Keep Growing So Fast?”, Introduction to Southeast Asia graduate course,
University of Michigan, 10/5/04
5. “Globalization and its Economic and Corporate Impacts”, Global Project Design Course,
College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 9/16/04
6. “Regional Profile: China and Southeast Asia”, Wharton AMP, 7/3/04
7. “Globalization, Regionalization and Economic Development in Southeast Asia” Royal
University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 6/8/04
8. “Globalization, Regionalization and Economic Development in Southeast Asia” Mekong
Institute, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 5/27/04
9. “Economic Development in Southeast Asia”, Khon Kaen University Visitors’ Program,
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 5/12/04
10. “India on the Move”, Emerging Markets Club, UMBS 4/20//04
11. “Michigan and the World”, Go Blue Rendezvous closing speech, UMBA 4/4/04
12. “US Elections, the Global Economy and the Rise of Asia”, University of Michigan India
Alumni Association, Mumbai, 3/22/04
13. “Asia’s Rise in the Global Economy: Reshaping World Business”, CoreNet Global India
Summit, Mumbai, 3/22/04
14. “Globalization and political correctness: a view from the frontlines”, Visiting Committee,
UMBS 3/19/04
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15. “Global Labor Standards and the Sweatshop Debate”, Global Interdependence course
3/11/04
16. Moderator, ASEAN Panel, 15th
Asia Business Conference 2/7/04
17. “Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Undergraduate Research Opportunity
Program, 2/3/04
18. “The East Asian Economic Miracle” Global Interdependence course 2/3/04
19. “Imperialism and Global Trade in Southeast Asia” Global Interdependence Course, 1/8/04
20. “How Asians View George Bush’s America”, Knight-Wallace Fellows, 1/6/04
2003
1. “China’s role in global markets” Chicago Council of Foreign Relations US-Japan-China
Symposium, Oct. 14
2. “Business in Asia”, Wharton Advanced Management Program, Oct. 16
3. “Asia’s growth markets and impact on US”, Kellogg and Michigan Business Alumni,
Chicago Oct. 9
4. “Globalization”, Executive Program Partners Oct. 8
5. Various lectures on globalization, IESE EMBA program Sept. 22-26
6. Global Economy”, Executive Program Sept. 24
7. Barbour Fellows Program, Rackham Sept. 19
8. Economic Dinner Group Sept. 15
9. “Globalization and Capitalism: Bane or Boon?” Midwest Institute for International and
Intercultural Education, Kalamazoo Michigan, August 5
10. “Business in China”, Thomson TV, Los Angeles, July 2?
11. “The US university model and Singapore universities”, Institute for Southeast Asian
Studies, Singapore, July 18, 2003
12. “Asia’s Business Future”, University of Michigan Alumni Association of Singapore,
Singapore, July 16, 2003
13. “China in Asia: Boon or Bogey?” guest lecture in CSIB 582 Business in China (Ken
Lieberthal), UMBS, April 10
14. Discussant of paper on Malaysia by Bryan Ritchie, Michigan State University, for Politics
of Economic Reform Seminar Series, WDI/II, March 11
15. “Accelerating Economic Growth: Lessons from Vietnam’s Neighbors”, Institute for
International Relations, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 5
16. “Southeast Asia’s Future Growth: Who Will Lead the Way?” Asia Society 13th
Corporate
Conference on “Opening Markets and Continuing Growth: Vietnam and the Asian
Economy”, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 7
17. Moderator, ASEAN Panel, 13th
Asia Business Conference, February
2002
1. “World Economic Prospects and the Implications for Manufacturing”, Manufacturing
Executive Program, University of Michigan Business School, Oct. 20
2. Discussant of paper on Vietnam by Regima Abrami, Harvard Business School, for Politics
of Economic Reform Seminar Series, WDI/II, October 10
3. “Maintaining Economic Competitiveness”, Conference on “Singapore: Future Challenges”,
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, October 3
4. “The U.S. and the World after September 11, Enron and the 2002 Farm Act”, Michigan
Journalism Fellows, Sept. 24
5. “The World Economy: US and Asia”, Executive Program, January 28, May 2, Sept. 13
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6. “The World Economy Post-9/11”. Economic Dinner Group, Sept. 9“The end of a ‘Golden
Age’: Globalization, Regionalization and the Economic Future of Singapore and Southeast
Asia”, University of Michigan Alumni Association, Singapore, July 12.
7. Convener, Ninth Southeast Asia Business Research Conference, University of Michigan
Business School, May 18-19
8. “Women and Economic Development in Southeast Asia”, Oberlin College, April 19
9. “Asia and the World Economy”, Coca-Cola Corp. Atlanta, March 13
10. “Trade and Investment Policy in Southeast Asia”, Marina Whitman’s Public Policy class,
March 7
11. “Shrimps Among Whales: Local Business, Multinationals and the State”, MIT-Singapore
Forum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 28
12. Moderator, Women on Boards panel, Women in Leadership Conference, February 8
13. Moderator, ASEAN panel and Women in Asian Business panel, 12th
Asia Business
Conference, February 2
14. Keynote remarks on economic human rights, Fourth Net Impact Faculty Case
15. Competition, January 22
2001
1. “Malaysia’s Regional and International Economic Relations”, School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, November 8
2. “Terrorism and Globalization: An International Perspective”, Conference on Corporate
Governance, Stakeholder Accountability and Sustainable Peace, William Davidson
Institute and Aspen Institute, University of Michigan Business School, November 2
3. “Why the Anti-Globalists Are Wrong”, Economic Dinner Group, October 15
4. “Why the Anti-Globalists Are Wrong”, Michigan Journalism Fellows, September 25
5. “Southeast Asia”, Symposium on Terrorism and Globalization: International Perspectives,
International Institute, University of Michigan, September 18
6. “Globalization: Issues and Challenges”, International Labor Office, Bangkok, August 27
7. “Understanding Asian Cultures”, Motorola Corp., May 17
8. “Sweatshops in Southeast Asia,” Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, April
9
9. “The Emerging Internet Economy in Southeast Asia: Something New or More of the
Same?” Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, April 9
10. “Income Inequality in Singapore”, Singaporeans @ Stanford, April 8
11. Paper discussant, Conference on “Uneven Transition in China”, Center for Chinese
Studies, University of Michigan, April 7
12. “Southeast Asia’s Economic Future: Promise or Peril”, Asia Globe Society, Jakarta,
Indonesia, March 21
13. “Challenges for Asian Businesses in the 21st Century”, Indofood Management Seminar,
Jakarta, Indonesia, March 21
14. Panel on “The Digital Divide”, Asia’s Technology Future, 11th
Asia Society Annual
Corporate Conference, Bangalore, India, March 12
15. Lectures on “Women in Southeast Asia”, “Contemporary Thailand, “Contemporary
Vietnam”, “Contemporary Hong Kong” and “The Chinese in Southeast Asia”, University
of Michigan Alumni Cruise, Vietnam, February 13-28