Chinese Economy in the Long Run conference

The Hoover Prosperity Program's Working Group on Long-Run Prosperity hosts a conference on China’s economic trajectory over the last one thousand years.

Hoover Prosperity Program director and Senior Fellow Stephen Haber opens the conference by describing the lessons scholars can learn from studying China’s economic history.

Renowned Nobel laureate in economic sciences and adjunct Hoover Senior Fellow Thomas Sargent delivers comments on one of the papers presented at the conference.

Participants engage in a discussion at the Chinese Economy in the Long Run conference.

Hoover Fellow and co-organizer of the conference Matthew Lowenstein presents research on the early Chinese lending markets.

Debin Ma, professor of economic history at Oxford University, presents research on China’s political consolidation.

Hoover Senior Fellow Frank Dikötter discusses a paper at the Chinese Economy in the Long Run conference.

Amit Seru, Hoover senior fellow and co-organizer of the conference, delivers closing remarks.