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Ragnar Nurkse

Ragnar Nurkse was an Estonian international economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development.-Life:...

Professor of Economics at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, New York. He joined Columbia in 1969 first as a visiting professor and was appointed a professor in 1970. His research focus has been on international trade and economic development, and he takes what has been described as a political economy perspective.

He has a BA from Rangoon University, Burma (1954) and a PhD from MIT (1960). He worked at Rangoon University as an economist first as a tutor (1954–57), then as a lecturer (1960–66), and finally as a research professor of (1966–68).

Selected publications

Selected publications include:

• with Kevin H. O'Rourke, 2007, "Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millenium", Princeton University Press
• with Ronald W. Jones, 2001, "Input Trade and the Location of Production", American Economic Review
• 1996 "Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries, and Frontiers", American Economic Review
• with Richard Clarida, 1992, "Government, Trade, and Comparative Advantage" , American Economic Review (1992);
• 1992 "The Roots of Divergence: Western Economic History in Comparative Perspective", American Economic Review
• with Stanislaw Wellisz, 1988, "The State and the Invisible Hand" , World Bank Research Observer