Mira Wilkins (born 1 June 1931) is an American economic and business historian and a world authority on the history of American business and
foreign direct investment. She is Professor Emerita at the Department of Economics,
Florida International University
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.
Wilkins received an
A.B.
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from
Radcliffe College and a
PhD from the
University of Cambridge
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in 1957. She has been a pioneer in the field of business history, especially in the field of
foreign direct investment,
foreign portfolio investment and
multinational enterprises on which she published two books ''The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914'' and its sequel ''The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945''. She has been called the "''doyen'' of historians of international business," and has published numerous major studies in this field. Her most recent book is a study of the role of multinationals in global electrification authored together with Peter Hertner and William Hausmann and titled ''Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007''. She is a past president of the
Business History Conference, which awarded her its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
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1931 births
Living people
American women economists
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American historians
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Radcliffe College alumni
Florida International University faculty
American women historians
21st-century American women