文贯中，美籍华裔经济学家，美国三一学院经济系终身教授以及上海财经大学高等研究院特聘教授。
   
Professor James Wen graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai, Chna in 1982 with an M.A. in Economics, and from University of Chicago in 1989 with a Ph.D. in Economics, specializing in development economics, Globaization, and the economies of East Asia, particularly China.

James Wen loves teaching.  First, he believes in good reading materials and textbooks that avail students of the most updated information and of different views and opinions.  Second, in his teaching, mathematics is balanced by an institutional and historical approach. Third, he believes that Economics can be learned more effectively if students are challenged to think more deeply and to practice more.

The earlier focus of James Wen’s  research was in China’s total factor productivity in its agriculture and the Great Leap Famine.  His more recent research interests are the remaining agrarian issues, and issues that are troubling China as it moves to modernization, urbanization and globalization.  More recently, he turns his interests to issues such as the Needham Puzzle.

Areas of Specialty:

• Development economics
• Agricultural economics
• International economics
• Chinese economic development and reforms
  
  

   
Courses taught:

ECON-208	Asian Economics
ECON-216	Globalization, Rivalry, and Coordination
ECON-317	Development Economics
ECON-331	Institutional Innovation and Economic Development: The Case of Modern China
INTS-202	Pacific Asia’s Fall and Resurgence: An Economic Response to Western Challenge

   
Research Interests:

• Total factor productivity and China’s rural institutional changes
• Causes of the Great Leap Famine in China
• Land tenure system in China
• Economic geographical approach to the Needham Puzzle
• Urbanization and migration in China
• Globalization of Chinese economy
  

   
文教授生于上海，蹲过牛棚。当过汽车售票员、食品厂搬运工。1978年任中国社会科学院翻译员，1979年入复旦大学，1982年获硕士学位后留校任教，1983年到美国芝加哥大学作访问学者；1989年获经济学博士学位；1994年起任三一学院(Trinity College)经济系副教授；1999-2000年度中国留美经济学会会长。现为美国三一学院经济系终身教授以及上海财经大学高等研究院特聘教授。
  
研究领域：宏观经济理论、应用宏观经济学、应用时间序列
  
主要学术兴趣包括：中国的农村土地制度、人民公社下的公共食堂与大饥荒的关系、中国的城市化问题，以及经济全球化对中国的影响等问题。

另，文贯中教授是国民党中将文强之子。

文教授在论坛的答疑汇总：https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-2641736-1-1.html