Hugh Patrick

Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus

Faculty Emeriti

Director

Center on Japanese Economy and Business

BA, Yale, 1951; MA, University of Michigan, 1955; MA, 1957; PhD, 1960; MA (Hon.), Yale, 1968

Joined CBS in 1984

Hugh Patrick

Office
320 Uris

Phone
212-854-3497

E-mail
htp1@columbia.edu

Fax
212-678-6958

Teaching and research interest

Hugh Patrick is director of CJEB, codirector of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, and R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1984 after some years as professor of economics and director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. He completed his B.A. at Yale University in 1951, earned M.A. degrees in Japanese Studies (1955) and Economics (1957) and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan in 1960. He has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, University of Tokyo and University of Bombay. Professor Patrick has been awarded Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and the Ohira Prize. His professional publications include sixteen books and some sixty articles and essays. His major fields of published research on Japan include macroeconomic performance and policy, banking and financial markets, government-business relations, and Japan United States economic relations. His most recent book, coauthored and co-edited with Takatoshi Ito and David E. Weinstein, is Reviving Japan’s Economy: Problems and Prescriptions (MIT Press, 2005). Other books include: Crisis and Change in the Japanese Financial System (with Takeo Hoshi); The Japanese Main Bank System (with Masahiko Aoki); and Asia's New Giant How the Japanese Economy Works (with Henry Rosovsky). He served as one of the four American members of the binational Japan United States Economic Relations Group appointed by President Carter and Prime Minister Ohira, 1979 1981. He is on the Board of Directors of U.S. Asia Pacific Council and has been a member of the Council of Foreign Relations since 1974. He chairs the Finance Committee for the Association of Asian Studies. He was chairman of the International Steering Committee for the conference series on Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) between 1985-2005, having served on the Committee since PAFTAD's inception in 1968. He was on the Board of the Social Science Research Council from 1982-88, and served as its chairman from 1985-88. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society for seven three-year terms. In November 1994 the Government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star (Kunnitō Zuihōshō). He was awarded an honorary doctorate of Social Sciences by Lingnan University, Hong Kong in 2000. He also received an Eagle on the World award by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York Inc., in November 2010.

Honors and awards

  • Honorary Doctor of Social Science, 2000
    Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  • Government of Japan, Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star , 1994
    Kunnito Zuihosho
  • Ohira Masayoshi Prize, 1992
    For book on Pacific Basin Industries in Distress
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1964
  • Eagle on the World Award, 2010
    Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Member, Board of Directors, US National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
  • Editorial Advisory Committee, Japanese Economic Studies
    E-journal
  • Chair, Finance Committee, Association for Asian Studies

Courses taught

Chapters

Japan and the International Monetary Regime In The Political Economy of Japan: The Changing International Context (1988)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Journal articles

From PAFTAD to APEC: Economist, Networks and Public Policymaking In Critical Perspectives in World Economy (2007)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Peter Drysdale, Takashi Terada

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Books

Reviving Japan's Economy: Problems and Prescriptions (2005)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, David Weinstein, Takatoshi Ito

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Crisis and Change in the Japanese Financial System (2000)
Author(s): Takeo Hoshi, Hugh Patrick

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The Japanese Main Bank System: Its Relevance for Developing and Transforming Economies (1995)
Author(s): Masahiko Aoki, Hugh Patrick

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The Financial Development of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan: Growth, Repression, and Liberalization (1994)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Yung Chul Park

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The Political Economy of Japan: Cultural and Social Dynamics (1992)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Yasuake Murakami

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Regulating Internal Financial Markets: Issues and Policies (1991)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Franklin Edwards

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Aggressive Unilateralism: America's 301 Trade Policy and the World Trading System (1990)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Jagdish Bhagwati

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Pacific Basin Industries in Distress: Structural Adjustment and Trade Policy in Nine Industrialized Economies (1990)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Larry Meissner

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The Political Economy of Japan: The Changing International Context (1988)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Yasuake Murakami

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Japan and the United States Today: Exchange Rates, Macroeconomic Policies. and Financial Market Innovations (1987)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Ryuichiro Tachi

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The Political Economy of Japan: The Domestic Transformation (1987)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Japan's High Technology Industries: Lessons and Limitations of Industrial Policy (1986)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Supplemental Report of the Japan - United States Economic Relations Group (1981)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Report of the Japan - United States Economic Relations Group (1981)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Ajia no Kyojin - Nihon (1978)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Henry Rosovsky

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Mineral Resources in the Pacific Area: Papers and Proceedings of the North Pacific Trade and Development Conference (1978)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Lawrence Krause

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Asia's New Giant: How the Japanese Economy Works (1976)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, Henry Rosovsky

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Asia's New Giant: How the Japanese Economy Works (1976)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Japanese Industrialization and Its Social Consequences (1976)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Financial Structure of Korea (1965)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick, J. G. Gurley, E. S. Shaw

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Monetary Policy and Central Banking in Contemporary Japan (1962)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Working Papers

Japan's Economy: The Idiosyncratic Recovery Continues Working paper (2007)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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Whither the Japanese Economy? Working paper (2004)
Author(s): Hugh Patrick

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