Peter W. Howitt

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Peter Wilkinson Howitt (born May 31, 1946 ) is a Canadian economist at Brown University .

Life

Howitt earned a bachelor's degree from McGill University in 1968 and a master's degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1969 . His Ph.D. He earned 1973 with the work Theory of Monetary Dynamics at Northwestern University . As early as 1972 he held a first professorship (associate professor) at the University of Western Ontario, from 1977 as associate professor . After a visiting professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1980), he received a full professorship at the University of Western Ontario in 1981. Other visiting professorships took him to Laval University (1985), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 1988) and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1989).

In 1995 Howitt left the University of Western Ontario and - after a further visiting professorship in 1995/96 at the University of Toulouse I - received a professorship at Ohio State University in 1996 . In 2000 Howitt moved to Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island . Since 2013 he has worked there as a professor emeritus in research and teaching.

Howitt has been a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1992 . Howitt has been researching for the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge , Massachusetts since 2001, and for the CD Howe Institute in Toronto , Canada since 2003 . In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Guelph .

Act

Howitt concerned with growth theories , in particular with reference to the models of Joseph Schumpeter , and creative destruction (creative destruction) and its quantitative analysis.

His work A Model of Growth through Creative Destruction and Endogenous Growth Theory (both with Philippe M. Aghion ) were cited more than 1300 times and more than 1100 times respectively (as of 2014) and are among the most cited economics papers after 1955. For 2019 he received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics.

Since 2014 Thomson Reuters Howitt (and Aghion) has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Economics ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of citations they have .

Writings (monographs)

  • Monetary Policy In Transition: A Study of Bank of Canada Policy 1982–85. Toronto: Howe Institute CD, 1986.
  • The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays. Philip Allan and University of Michigan, 1990.
  • (as editor) The Implications of Knowledge-Based Growth for Micro-Economic Policies. Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 1996.
  • (with Philippe Aghion) Endogenous Growth Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
  • (as editor, with Elisabetta de Antoni and Axel Leijonhufvud) Money, Markets and Method: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Clower. Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 1999.
  • (with Philippe Aghion) The Economics of Growth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (rsc-src.ca); accessed on September 30, 2014
  2. ↑ Econometrica , 60 (2): 323-351
  3. ↑ 2014 Predictions - Economics at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); accessed on September 30, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Howitt, Peter W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howitt, Peter; Howitt, Peter Wilkinson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian economist from Brown University
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1946