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Economic historian
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Jeffrey Gale Williamson (born 26 November 1935
[1]
[2] ) is the
Laird Bell Professor of
Economics (Emeritus), Harvard University; an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the
University of Wisconsin (Madison) ; Research Associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research ; and Research Fellow for the
Center for Economic and Policy Research . He also served (1994–1995) as the president of the
Economic History Association . His research focus is and has been on comparative
economic history and the history of the international economy and development.
[3]
[4] Economist
Hilary Williamson Hoynes is his daughter.
[5]
Selected publications
with T. Hatton, 1998, The Age of Mass Migration , Oxford
with P. Aghion, 1998, Growth, Inequality, and Globalization , Mattioli Lectures: Cambridge
with K. O'Rourke, 1999, Globalization and History , MIT
with
M. Bordo and
A. M. Taylor , 2003, Globalization in Historical Perspective , Chicago and NBER
with Timothy J. Hatton, 2005, Global Migration and the World Economy. Two Centuries of Policy and Performance ,
The MIT Press .
2011, Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
with Peter H. Lindert, 2016,
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 .
Princeton University Press .
Festschrift
T.J. Hatton. K. H. O'Rourke and A. M. Taylor (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2007)
References
External links
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