Gary Hamilton

Gary G. Hamilton is a Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of Washington. He held a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology. He specializes in historical/comparative sociology, economic sociology, and organizational sociology. He also specializes in Asian societies, with particular emphasis on East Asian societies. He has received a number of honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellowship from The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is an author of numerous articles and books, including most recently Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths, Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan (with Robert Feenstra) (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies (London: Routledge, 2006), and The Market Makers: How Retailers Are Changing the Global Economy (co-editor and contributor, Oxford University Press, 2011; paperback 2012). His book with his co-author, Kao Cheng-shu, entitled Making Money: Taiwanese Industrialists and the Making of the New Global Economy (forthcoming Stanford University Press, 2017) is in press.