Breece’s Chinese Economy Course Featured in Mainebiz
Mainebiz published an article on a Chinese economy course taught by James Breece, an economics professor at the University of Maine, who has traveled to China several times. Breece uses a format for the course called the “leveraged flip.” Students read assigned textbooks, write papers and view videos outside of class and interact with guest speakers and participate in discussion during class time. “I was surprised by the number of people in Maine with connections to China,” he said of finding speakers. Breece also was quoted in the related Mainebiz article, “Trade winds: Maine companies look to Asian growth markets.” He said there’s been a major shift in firms going to China. “Initially [firms went there] for cheap labor. But now companies go to China to manufacture and to sell in the Chinese market, where the growing middle class is the top consumer,” Breece said.