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Edward J. Lincoln

Edward J. Lincoln is the director of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Lincoln’s research interests include contemporary structure and change in the Japanese economy, East Asian economic integration, and U.S. economic policy toward Japan and East Asia. Before joining NYU, Professor Lincoln was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and earlier a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In the mid-1990s, he served as Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale at the American Embassy in Tokyo. He has also been a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Professor Lincoln received his Bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, his MA in both economics and East Asian Studies at Yale University, and his PhD in economics also at Yale University.

Focus: Economy, Globalization, Trade

Related Resources:

A Close Relationship Requires Compromise (Commentary)
Lightweight Japan (Commentary)
Winners without Losers (Videos)
Subprime: Is the U.S. Repeating Japan's Experience? (Briefings)
Winners without Losers: Why Americans Should Care More about Global Economic Policy (Audio)
Subprime: Is the U.S. Repeating Japan's Experience? (Audio)
Why Economics Matters in Foreign Policy (Audio)

Selected Publications:

East Asian Economic Regionalism (The Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution, 2004),
Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform (Brookings, 2001),
Troubled Times: U.S.-Japan Economic Relations in the 1990s (Brookings, 1998)
Japan Facing Economic Maturity (Brookings, 1988)

Last Updated: Jun 29, 2007