Gene Michael Grossman (born December 11, 1955, in New York) is the

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Professor of International Economics at

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. He received his B.A. in Economics from

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in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the

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in 1980. He became assistant professor at Princeton University in 1980 and full professor of economics in 1988. He is well known for his research on international trade, in large part focusing on the relationship between economic growth and trade and the political economy of trade policy. He is also known for his work on the

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. He frequently collaborated with Harvard professor

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, producing three books together: ''Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy'', ''Special Interest Politics'', and ''Interest Groups and Trade Policy''. In 2009, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen. Grossman received the 2015

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for International Trade. In 2016, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the

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. Professor Grossman currently lives with his wife and fellow lecturer at the

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, Jean Baldwin Grossman. He has two children. Grossman was elected as a member of the

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in 1997.

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References

External links

Gene Grossman's personal homepage at Princeton University

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