Richard C. K. Burdekin is Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics at Claremont McKenna College and was a Visiting Senior Fellow at Hawaii's East-West Center in August 2005. He was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Assistant Professor at the University of Miami. Richard Burdekin first visited China in 1998. His main research interests include Chinese economic reforms, inflation and deflation, and central bank policymaking. Richard Burdekin has published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Economica, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Financi...