Wei-Bin Zhang

Zhang Wei-Bin, born in China in 1961, PhD (Umeå, Sweden), is Professor in APU since 2000. He was graduated in 1982 from Department of Geography, Beijing University. He completed graduate study at Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. After he completed his dissertation on economic growth theory, he researched at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm for 10 years. During the Swedish period, he also worked as visiting scholars in USA, Japan, Mainland China, Austria, and Hong Kong. He taught at the Department of Economics, NUS until May, 2000, for one and half years. His main research fields are nonlinear economic dynamics (the creator of synergetic economics), chaos theory and its applications, economic theory, ancient Confucianism, American civilization, and economic development and modernization of Chinese societies and Japan. He single-authorized 490 academic articles (300 in international peer-reviewed journals), 28 academic books in English by well-known international academic publishing houses, and one book of poetry (in Chinese) by a well-known publisher in the field. He is editorial board members of 14 peer-review international journals. Prof. Zhang is the editor of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Models in Economics (in two volumes) as a part of the unprecedented global effort, The Encyclopedias of Life Support Systems, organized by The UNESCO. He was ranked 2 Top among 63005 economists by Nov. 2021: http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.anbpages.html