Albert Fishlow is an

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, a professor emeritus of economics at the

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Faculty profile
, UC Berkeley, retrieved 2013-08-25. and a professor emeritus of international and public affairs at

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.Albert Fishlow
The Earth Institute, Columbia University, retrieved 2013-08-25. He is the former director of the Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies and Center for the Study of Brazil at Columbia. He was previously the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the

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. Fishlow's published research has addressed issues in economic history, Brazilian and Latin American development strategy, as well as economic relations between industrialized and developing countries. Fishlow has served as deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs from 1970 to 1976. In 1999, he was awarded the National

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by the government of Brazil. Fishlow received his BA from the

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and his PhD from

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. Previously, Fishlow was professor of economics at the

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, Berkeley and dean of international and area studies. He has also been visiting professor at the

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and professor of economics and director of the Center for International and Area Studies at

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Selected publications

*Optimal Resource Allocation in an Imperfect Market Setting, in ''The

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'', December 1961. *Brazilian Size Distribution of Income, in ''

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'', May 1972. *Brazilian Development in Long-Term Perspective, in ''The American Economic Review'', May 1980. *"Latin America in the XXI century" in Economic and Social Development into the XXI century, edited by Louis Emmerij (Inter-American Development Bank 1997) *"Contending with Capital Flows: What is Different about the 1990s?" with Barry Eichengreen in Capital Flows and Financial Crises, editor Miles Kahler (Cornell 1998) *The United States and the Americas: A Twenty-First Century View, co-editor James Jones (Norton 1999)

Foreign honours

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References

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