Benjamin Willem de Vries (born 24 June 1923) is a Dutch-Israeli economic historian. He is an associate professor at

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Career

De Vries was born on 24 June 1923 in

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, the Netherlands. He studied economics at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

and obtained his BA in 1948, and a further MA in 1951 and finally his PhD in 1956. In 1957 he moved to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and started working at a cement factory. From 1958 to 1959 de Vries worked for the Israeli Export Institute. From 1960 until 1988 he was adjunct director export market research department of the

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. From 1968 to 1970 de Vries was a lecturer of Business Administration at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. In 1973 he moved to the Economic Department of

where he became a senior lecturer, in 1990 he was promoted to associate professor. De Vries was elected a corresponding member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

in 1984.

References

1923 births Living people Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University Dutch economists Dutch emigrants to Israel 20th-century Dutch historians Economic historians Israeli economists Israeli historians Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Writers from Amsterdam University of Amsterdam alumni {{Israel-academic-bio-stub