its 1980s mid-Atlantic location—to work while still a graduate student on the appendix to the famous Monetarist paper "Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic" (by Thomas Sargent and Neil Wallace). Quah calls The Great Shift East the move in the world's economic center of gravity out of the mid-Atlantic location where it had been for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, pulled by the rise of economies in the east. Between 1980 and 2010 that economic center of gravity moved 5,000 km east, to the Persian Gulf, on a trajectory that continues to take it towards the boundary between India and China. Although the early part of his career saw close attention to technical developments in timeseries econometrics, Quah became heavily influenced by the approach to communicating ideas exemplified in the work of Edward Tufte, and sought similar dissemination of his research to a wider audience. He has also argued that research on economic development needs to be inextricably linked to scholarly work in International Relations. Public Dissemination Quah's TED talks include "Global Tensions From a Rising East" (March 2012) and "Economics, Democracy, and the New World Order" (August 2014). Quah's public lectures and events, more generally, are available on a curated YouTube listing. Valeriepieris circle The Mong Khet Circle is a diameter circle that contains more humans within it than outside of it, and placed over east Asia with its epicenter over Mong Khet Township, Myanmar. An original circle of diameter was originally devised by Ken Myers in 2013, before being later refined to by Quah, with Mong Khet being identified as the centre. Papers Quah's publications listing page at the London School of Economics Personal life Quah has two sons, Carter and Mason. References External links Quah's website Quah's Google Scholar citations 1958 births Living people People from Penang Malaysian people of Chinese descent Harvard University alumni Princeton University alumni Harvard University faculty MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty Academics of the London School of Economics Academic staff of the National University of Singapore