Edward Steinfeld

Edward Steinfeld is an associate professor of political economy in the MIT Department of Political Science. Steinfeld directs the MIT China Program (MISTI), and co-directs the MIT Industrial Performance Center’s China Energy Group.

Steinfeld’s research focuses on the political economy of development, with a particular emphasis on contemporary China. In addition to a variety of academic articles, Steinfeld is the author of Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in July, 2010) and Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Steinfeld also edited (with Anthony Saich and Yasheng Huang) the book Financial Sector Reform in China (Harvard University, 2005).

In the News:

• Edward Steinfeld and Barbara Finamore describe how China’s green tech growth is having a positive impact on the U.S. in “In Clean Energy Race With China, Both Countries Come Out Ahead”, The Independent, October 13, 2010
• Ed Steinfeld on China’s Technological Development and the West in “‘Playing Our Game’: Ed Steinfeld on China”, Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2010

Publications:

• “Greener plants, grayer skies? A report from the front lines of China’s energy sector,” Energy Policy, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2009, Pages 1809-1824
• Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West
• Forging Reform In China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry

Additional Information:

• Edward Steinfeld’s homepage