Ronald Edsel Findlay (April 12, 1935 – October 8, 2021)
was an economist and trade theorist. He was
Professor
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of Economics at
Columbia University, New York.
He was born in Rangoon, Burma during British colonial rule.
He has a BA from
Rangoon University
The University of Yangon (also Yangon University; my, ရန်ကုန် တက္ကသိုလ်, ; formerly Rangoon College, Rangoon University and Rangoon Arts and Sciences University), located in Kamayut, Yangon, is the oldest universi ...
, Burma (1954) and a PhD from
MIT
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(1960). He worked at Rangoon University as an economist first as a tutor (1954–57), then as a lecturer (1960–66), and finally as a research professor of (1966–68).
He joined Columbia in 1969 first as a
visiting professor
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and was appointed a professor in 1970. His research focus has been on international trade and economic development, and he takes what has been described as a political economy perspective.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1976.
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
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* 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
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See also
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North–South model
The North–South model, developed largely by Columbia University economics professor Ronald Findlay, is a model in developmental economics that explains the growth of a less developed "South" or "periphery" economy that interacts through trade w ...
References
American development economists
University of Yangon alumni
1935 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Yangon faculty
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American economists
Burmese emigrants to the United States
Columbia University faculty
Burmese economists