My main expertise is on the long-term economic growth of East Asia, especially China. My research interests include global history; the international comparison of living standards; institutions, legal traditions, and ideology; human capital and productivity; and the economic history of the silk industry. I have published widely on Asian and comparative economic history and am the co-editor of the Cambridge Economic History of China.
- Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (from 2019 to 2021)
- Lecturer (2006-2011); Senior Lecturer (2011-2013); then Associate Professor (2013-2020), Department of Economic History, London School of Economics
- Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies and Faculty Fellow of the Foundation for Advanced Studies, Tokyo (from 2002 to 2006)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Fellow of the Center for International Studies, University of Missouri at St. Louis (from 2000 to 2003)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Asian Historical Statistics Project, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (from 1998 to 2000)
- Economic History
- Growth and Development
- Comparative Institutional and Legal History
- Chinese Economy
- East Asian Studies