Ronald W. Jones
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Ronald W. Jones is an influential international trade economist at the University of Rochester. His recent highly acclaimed book "Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade" (2000) 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 A. Frankel), an upper level college textbook which focuses on international economics.
He earned a bachelors degree from Swarthmore College, in 1952 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.