By Wang Yuan

Special to the Tsinghua News Center

Professor Douglass C. North, 1993 Nobel Laureate in economics, visited Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management (SEM) on July 12. He delivered a speech entitled “A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History” and held a dialogue with renowned Chinese economists during his visit.

Professor Qian Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM, presented a gift to Professor North on behalf of Tsinghua SEM after the speech.

The following dialogue session was joined by several renowned Chinese economists including Professor Qian Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM, Professor David Daokui Li, Chair of the Department of Finance of Tsinghua SEM, Professor Dennis Yang from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Professor Bai Chong-en, Chair of the Department of Economics of Tsinghua SEM, Professor Wang Yijiang from Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior of Tsinghua SEM, Visiting Professor Li Hongbin from Department of Economics of Tsinghua SEM, and Professor Lin Shuanglin, Chairman of both China Center for Public Finance and the Department of Public Finance, Peking University.

(Dialogue with Chinese economists)

Professor North currently is a Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University, St. Louis, and a Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993.