Jeffrey Gale Williamson (born 1935) 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
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; and Research Fellow for the
Center for Economic and Policy Research. He also served (1994–1995) as the president of the
Economic History Association
The Economic History Association (EHA) was founded in 1940 to "encourage and promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of economic history and to help preserve and administer materials for research in economic history". It publi ...
. His research focus is and has been on comparative
economic history
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and the history of the international economy and development.
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Hilary Williamson Hoynes is his daughter.
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
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History
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.
* 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
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.
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
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Economic historians
American development economists
Living people
1935 births
Presidents of the Economic History Association