Randall Wright

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Randall Douglas Wright (born August 4, 1956 in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada ) is a Canadian economist and university professor .

Life

Wright graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts in 1979 . He then moved to the University of Minnesota , where he received his Ph.D. made. From 1984 assistant professor at Cornell University , he moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 . There he received an honorary Master of Arts in 1990 and subsequently became an Associate Professor . In 1994 the university appointed him professor. In 2009 he accepted a call from the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

Wright's work focuses on macroeconomics and the money economy . In the early 1990s, together with Nobuhiro Kiyotaki , he developed an approach using addiction theory to explain problems in the money economy. This approach, with which information, temporal or spatial breaks can be explained better than in previous approaches, later found its way into science under the name matching theory . In addition, he published in particular on topics related to work.

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 4th edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , pp. 904-905

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bus.wisc.edu: "Five New Faculty Members Join Wisconsin School of Business" ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 6, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bus.wisc.edu
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Randall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Randall Douglas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada