Yew-Kwang Ng or simply Kwang is a Malaysian-Australian economist, who is currently Special Chair Professor of Economics at Fudan University, Shanghai, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
11 Facts About Yew-Kwang Ng
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Yew-Kwang Ng has published in a variety of academic disciplines and is best known for his work in welfare economics.
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Yew-Kwang Ng was born during the Second World War, in Japanese-occupied Malaya.
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Yew-Kwang Ng held a chair as professor of economics at Monash University between 1985 and 2012 and is an emeritus professor.
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Yew-Kwang Ng is a columnist for the Chinese business news NetEase Finance online portal.
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Yew-Kwang Ng proposed welfare biology as an academic discipline, stating that this has been his more underestimated contribution.
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Yew-Kwang Ng published his first academic paper in the Journal of Political Economy, one of the top five economics journals, while he was still an undergraduate student.
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Yew-Kwang Ng wrote his first book on the topic in 1979, Welfare Economics: Introduction and Development of Basic Concepts.
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Yew-Kwang Ng has defended this view in various academic papers, some of which were jointly written with the utilitarian moral philosopher Peter Singer.
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Yew-Kwang Ng argues for this position in his 2000 book Efficiency, Equality, and Public Policy.
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Yew-Kwang Ng is a proponent of generous immigration policies, stating that "immigrants bring in factors complementary to the local ones and make the economy more vibrant".