The political economy of automotive industrialization in east asia; Political economy of Malaysia’s industrial policy: institutional capacity and the automotive industry

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John Thoburn

John Thoburn holds a PhD degree from the University of Alberta in Canada, and is Emeritus Reader in Economics, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK. After retiring from East Anglia, and after six months as a Visiting Professor at Kobe University in Japan, he became Professor of Development Economics at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, then Visiting Professor there until 2017. He is co-author (with Kaoru Natsuda) of Automotive Industrialisation: Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2021); first author of five other books on development, including Primary Commodity Exports and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and a Study of Malaysia (Wiley, 1977, Japanese-language edition Taga Shuppan, 1984); and articles in journals including Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of International Development, Review of International Political Economy, European Journal of Development Research, and Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (on whose advisory board he serves). He has been a consultant for various agencies including UNIDO, UNDP, UN-ESCAP, ASEAN, the UK Department for International Development (DfID), and with the Harvard Institute of International Development.