# Prof. David Backus on NYU Shanghai

1 Faculty News January 10, 2013 ![China Daily logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030721.jpg?itok=tg2Q-bhu)>

Excerpt from [China Daily](http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2013-01/10/content_16102651.htm) -- "'We have a number of foreign students at our New York campus, and I very much enjoy the difference in perspective they bring to class,' said [David Backus](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-backus), who teaches economics at NYU's Stern School of Business and was involved in the preparations for the Shanghai campus during a 2011 visit."

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