Ronald Winthrop Jones (July 5, 1931 – September 27, 2022) was an influential international trade economist and retired Xerox Professor of Economics at the

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. His highly acclaimed book ''Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade'' summarizes much of his past work and also discusses the recent market trend toward fragmentation and outsourcing of the production process. Professor Jones also is an author of ''World Trade and Payments''(with Richard E. Caves and

Jeffrey Frankel Jeffrey Alexander "Jeff" Frankel (born November 5, 1952, in San Francisco, California) is an international macroeconomist. He works as the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard Kennedy School. Education Frankel g ...

), an upper-level college textbook that focuses on

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. He earned an A.B. from

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in 1952 and a Ph.D. from the

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in 1956.

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Department of Economics, University of Rochester
1931 births 2022 deaths Writers from Louisville, Kentucky Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Econometric Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni 21st-century American economists 20th-century American economists Swarthmore College alumni Trade economists University of Rochester faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Distinguished fellows of the American Economic Association {{US-economist-stub

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