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Ronald Winthrop Jones (July 5, 1931 – September 27, 2022)[1] was an influential international trade economist and retired Xerox Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. His highly acclaimed book Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade[2] summarizes much of his past work and also discusses the recent market trend toward fragmentation and outsourcing of the production process.
Ronald W. Jones | |
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| Born | Ronald Winthrop Jones July 5, 1931 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | September 27, 2022 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of Rochester |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
| Doctoral students | Eric Bond Makoto Yano |
Professor Jones also is an author of World Trade and Payments[3](with Richard E. Caves and Jeffrey Frankel), an upper-level college textbook that focuses on international economics.
He earned an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1952 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.
See also
edit- Neary, J. Peter; Helpman, Elhanan; Ethier, Wilfred (1993). Theory, policy and dynamics in international trade: essays in honor of Ronald W Jones. Cambridge New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521434423.
References
edit- ^ Ronald W. Jones
- ^ Ronald Winthrop Jones (2000). Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-10086-1.
- ^ Richard E. Caves; Jeffrey A. Frankel; Ronald Winthrop Jones (2007). World Trade and Payments: An Introduction. Pearson Addison Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-22660-0.
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