Ronald Findlay
American economist (1935–2021)
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Ronald Edsel Findlay (April 12, 1935 – October 8, 2021) was an American economist and trade theorist. He served as the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics at Columbia University.
Ronald E. Findlay | |
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| Born | April 12, 1935 Rangoon, Burma |
| Died | October 8, 2021 (aged 86) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Rangoon University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert M. Solow[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Website | |
He was born in 1935 in Rangoon, then in British Burma.[2] He and his family fled on foot from Burma to India during World War II.[3]
He received a BA from Rangoon University in 1954, and a PhD from MIT in 1960, where his doctoral dissertation was supervised by Robert Solow.[4] He began his career as an economist at Rangoon University, first as a tutor (1954–57), then as a lecturer (1960–66), and finally as a research professor (1966–68).[5]
He joined Columbia in 1969, initially as a visiting professor, before being appointed a professor in 1970. His research focused on international trade and economic development, and he took what has been described as a perspective centred around political economy.[5] He helped theorise the North-South model of international trade.[6] He became a U.S. citizen in 1976.[7]
Findlay died on October 8, 2021, at the age of 86.[8]
Selected publications
Selected publications include:
- with Kevin H. O'Rourke, 2007, "Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium", Princeton University Press
- with Ronald W. Jones, 2001, "Input Trade and the Location of Production", The American Economic Review
- 1996 "Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries, and Frontiers", The American Economic Review
- with Richard Clarida, 1992, "Government, Trade, and Comparative Advantage", The American Economic Review (1992);
- 1992 "The Roots of Divergence: Western Economic History in Comparative Perspective", The American Economic Review
- with Stanislaw Wellisz, 1988, "The State and the Invisible Hand", World Bank Research Observer
- 1984 "Trade and Development: Theory and Asian Experience", Asian Development Review, Vol 2, No. 2
- An "Austrian" Model of International Trade and Interest Rate Equalization, in Journal of Political Economy
