Ronald Findlay

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Name Ronald Findlay		Education University of Yangon

Books Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium

Ronald Edsel Findlay (born 1935) is the Professor of Economics at Columbia University, New York. He joined Columbia in 1969 first as a visiting professor 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 has a BA from Rangoon University, Burma (1954) and a PhD from MIT (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).

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

References

Ronald Findlay Wikipedia

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