Robert Blohm (born May 27, 1948 in Trenton,

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) is an American and

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and

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, currently a professor of economics at China's

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. He helped expand the Japanese

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in the 1980s to Canadian

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and

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s. In the early 1990s he argued widely in the US and Canadian press against the economic feasibility of

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's separation from Canada, particularly in a series of opinion articles in ''

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''. He coined the term "the internet economy" in a ''Wall Street Journal'' opinion article by that title in 1996. In the later 1990s he published articles in the general and trade press against restructuring the

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electric industry into a centralized

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. Blohm has since helped the

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develop risk-based standards for reliably operating and planning the electric system in a competitive market.

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