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Gergana Ivanova
A meeting of scholars to consider problems of teaching and research in Asian economic history was held in Highland Park, Illinois, October 30-31, 1959. It was organized under the auspices of The Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change of the University of Chicago, and funds were provided by the Division of Social Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation. Professor Bert F. Hoselitz chaired the sessions. Participants included Wolfram Eberhard, Department of Sociology, University of California; Alexander Eckstein, Department of Economics, University of Rochester; Albert Feuerwerker, Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University; Alexander Gerschenkron, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Bert F. Hoselitz, Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago; Charles Issawi, Near and Middle East Institute, Columbia University; E. A. Kracke, Jr., Far Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Simon Kuznets, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; William W. Lockwood, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Morris David Morris, Department of Economics, University of Washington; Henry Rosovsky, Department of Economics, University of California; Thomas C. Smith, Department of History, Stanford University; Burton Stein, Department of History, University of Minnesota; Erskine McKinley, The Rockefeller Foundation. Due to the absence of Dr. K. J. Pelzer, Yale University, there was no representative of Southeast Asia.