Alexander Eckstein

Alexander Eckstein (Novi Sad 1915–1976) was a professor of economics who worked at the University of Michigan.

Eckstein's area of expertise was the Chinese economy and he played a notable role in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and the development of Sino-US diplomacy (the so-called Ping-pong diplomacy) of the 1970s.

Selected publications

 * 1962, The National Income of Communist China
 * 1960, Communist China's Economic Development and Foreign Trade
 * 1975, China's Economic Development: The Interplay of Scarcity and Ideology
 * 1977, China's Economic Revolution
 * 1977, Comparison of Economic Systems: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches