Ronald Findlay
Ronald Edsel Findlay (April 12, 1935 – October 8, 2021) was an economist and trade theorist. He served as the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics at Columbia University.
Ronald E. Findlay | |
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| Born | April 12, 1935 Rangoon, Burma |
| Died | October 8, 2021 (aged 86) Austin, Texas |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | Columbia University |
| Alma mater | Rangoon University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert M. Solow |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He was born in 1935 in Rangoon, then in British Burma. He and his family fled on foot from Burma to India during World War II.
He received a BA from Rangoon University in 1954, and a PhD from MIT in 1960, where his doctoral dissertation was supervised by Robert Solow. He began his career as an economist at Rangoon University, first as a tutor (1954–57), then as a lecturer (1960–66), and finally as a research professor (1966–68).
He joined Columbia in 1969, initially as a visiting professor, before being appointed a professor in 1970. His research focused on international trade and economic development, and he took what has been described as a perspective centred around political economy. He helped theorise the North-South model of international trade. He became a U.S. citizen in 1976.