Jeffrey G. Williamson

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Jeffrey Gale Williamson (* 1935 ) is an American economist and historian .

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Jeffrey G. Williamson was born and raised in the Connecticut River Valley in New England . In 1957 he graduated from Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics. At Stanford University he received a Master of Arts in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1961. in economics . He then taught at Vanderbilt University and from 1963 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he was appointed professor in 1968 . In 1983 he went to Harvard University , where he was appointed to the Laird Bell Chair in 1984. From 1994 to 1995 he was President of the Economic History Association and from 1997 to 2000 Head of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. In 2008 he retired .

Jeffrey G. Williamson has taught and researched as a guest at universities and colleges such as the University of the Philippines (1967–1968, 2011, 2012, 2013), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (1978–1980), the Australian National University (1988, 2003 , 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012), the European University Institute (1994–1995), the Institute for World Economy (1995, 2004, 2008), the University of Groningen (1995), the Stockholm School of Commerce (2000), the University of Copenhagen (2000 , 2007), the Carlos III University (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009), the École d'Économie de Paris (2008), the University of Barcelona (2009), the Universidade de São Paulo , Brazil (2009) and the Universidad de la República , Uruguay (2009, 2010). He has received several awards for his teaching work, including the Galbraith Prize from Harvard University (1985, 1994) and the Hughes Prize from the Economic History Association (2000).

He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank , the International Monetary Fund , the National Bureau of Economic Research , the Inter-American Development Bank , the Research Institute for the Future of Work and the Center for Economic Policy Research .

Jeffrey G. Williamson has been born with Nancy since 1958. Penfield is married and has four children. He lives in Madison , Wisconsin .

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Jeffrey G. Williamson is the author or co-author of over 25 books and approximately 200 scientific articles.

  • American growth and the balance of payments, 1820-1913. A study of the long swing. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1964.
  • with Peter H. Lindert: American inequality. A macroeconomic history. Academic Press, New York 1980, ISBN 0-12-757160-4 .
  • Did british capitalism breed inequality? Allen and Unwin, Boston 1985, ISBN 0-04-942186-7 . New editions: Routledge, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-37869-9 and Taylor and Francis, Hoboken 2013.
    Spanish: Capitalismo y desigualdad económica en Gran Bretaña. Translated from the English by Ramón Serratacó. Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, Madrid 1987, ISBN 84-7434-428-X .
  • Inequality, poverty, and history. The Kuznets memorial lectures of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University. Blackwell, Cambridge 1991, ISBN 1-557-86118-8 .
  • with Edwin Mills , Charles Becker: Indian urbanization and economic growth since 1960. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1992, ISBN 0-8018-4179-8 .
  • with Philippe Aghion : Growth Inequality and Globalization. Theory, History, and Policy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 978-0-521-65070-0 .
  • Winners and losers over two centuries of globalization. Wider, Helsinki 2002, ISBN 92-9190-310-8 .
  • with Alan M. Taylor, Michael D. Bordo (Eds.): Globalization in Historical Perspective. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2003, ISBN 0-226-06598-7 .
  • with Timothy J. Hatton: What fundamentals drive world migration? Wider, Helsinki 2003, ISBN 92-9190-428-7 .
  • with Timothy J. Hatton: Global migration and the world economy. Two centuries of policy and performance. MIT, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 0-262-08342-6 . New edition 2008.
  • Globalization and the Poor Periphery Before 1950. MIT, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 0-262-23250-2 .

Items:

  • with Peter H. Lindert: English Workers' Living Standards during the Industrial Revolution. A new look. In: The Economic History Review. New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1, 1983, pp. 1-25, DOI: 10.2307 / 2598895 .
  • with Matthew Higgins: Asian demography and foreign capital dependence. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge 1996.
  • with William J. Collins: Capital goods prices, global capital markets and accumulation. 1870-1950. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge 1999.
  • with Kevin H. O'Rourke: After Columbus. Explaining the global trade boom 1500-1800. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge 2001.
  • with Timothy J. Hatton: Demographic and economic pressure on emigration out of Africa. Research Institute for the Future of Work, Bonn 2001.
  • with Michael A. Clemens : Wealth Bias in the First Global Capital Market Boom, 1870-1913. In: Economic Journal. 114, 2004, pp. 311-344.
  • with Michael A. Clemens: Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Change after 1950? In: Journal of Economic Growth. 9, 2004, pp. 5-46.
  • with Timothy J. Hatton: A dual policy paradox. Why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies? National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge 2005.
  • History without evidence. Center for European, Governance and Development Research, Göttingen 2009.
  • with Peter H. Lindert: American Colonial Incomes, 1650–1774. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge 2014.
  • with Timothy J. Hatton: Global economic slumps and migration. VOX, 2009 ( online ).

literature

  • Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, Alan M. Taylor (Eds.): The new comparative economic history. Essays in honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. With an afterword by Lawrence H. Summers . MIT, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-08361-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discurso de investidura como Doctor Honoris Causa del Prof. Dr. Jeffrie G. Williamson on researchgate.net
  2. ↑ Jeffrey Williamson at wisconsinacademy.org
  3. ↑ see publications in the curriculum vita (as of November 2014) (PDF; 401 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Williamson, Jeffrey G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williamson, Jeffrey Gale (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1935