Gregory C. Chow is the Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. His previous books include "Analysis and Control of Dynamic Economic Systems" (1975), "Econometrics "(1983), "The Chinese Economy" (1985), "Understanding China's Economy" (1994), "Asia in the Twenty-first Century" (1997), and "Dynamic Economics" (1997). He has advised top government officials in mainland China and Taiwan, and in May 2001 the Econometric Research Program at Princeton was named in his honor.