Mundell, Robert A.

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Name (Hebrew)
מנדל, רוברט
Name (Latin)
Mundell, Robert A.
Other forms of name
Mundell, R. A. (Robert A.)
Date of birth
1932-10-24
Date of death
2021-04-04
Associated country
Canada
United States
Field of activity
Economics
Occupation
Economists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 51770319
Wikidata: Q219721
Library of congress: n 50031983
Sources of Information
  • Washington post WWW site, viewed April 7, 2021(in obituary dated April 6, 2021: Robert A. Mundell, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who helped shape economic policy on both sides of the Atlantic as an intellectual architect of the euro and President Ronald Reagan's supply-side tax cuts, died April 4 at the 16th-century palazzo where he lived in the countryside near Siena, Italy. He was 88. Robert Alexander Mundell was born in Kingston, Ontario, on Oct. 24, 1932. Dr. Mundell studied economics and Slavonic studies at the University of British Columbia, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1953, and then received a master's degree from the University of Washington in 1954. He received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956, also studying at the London School of Economics. In 1974, he joined Columbia University, where he became a professor emeritus)
  • His Growth, stability, and inflationary finance, 1965.
  • Debt, deficit and economic performance, c1992:CIP t.p. (Prof. of Econ., Columbia U.)
  • OCLC database, 6/10/93(hdgs.: Mundell, Robert A.; Mundell, Robert Alexander, 1932- ; usage: Robert A. Mundell; Robert Mundell)
  • Growth and inflation in China, 1996:CIP t.p. (R.A. Mundell) galley (Robert Mundell)
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Wikipedia description:

Robert Alexander Mundell (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist who was a professor of economics at Columbia University, McGill University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell is known as the "father" of the euro, as he laid the groundwork for its introduction through this work and helped to start the movement known as supply-side economics. Mundell was also known for the Mundell–Fleming model and Mundell–Tobin effect.

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