Jeffrey G. Williamson

Jeffrey Gale Williamson is the Laird Bell Professor of Economics (Emeritus) and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow for the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He also served (1994–1995) as the president of the Economic History Association. His research focus is and has been on comparative economic history and the history of the international economy and development.^[1]^[2]

Selected publications

with T. Hatton, 1998, The Age of Mass Migration, Oxford
with P. Aghion, 1998, Growth, Inequality, and Globalization, Mattioli Lectures: Cambridge
with K. O'Rourke, 1999, Globalization and History, MIT
with M. Bordo and A. M. Taylor, 2003, Globalization in Historical Perspective, Chicago and NBER

Festschrift

T.J. Hatton. K. H. O'Rourke and A. M. Taylor (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2007)

References

^ http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/williamson/bio Harvard University: Jeffrey Williamson - Biography (Accessed March 2011)
^ http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html?key=728 IZA: Biography of Jeffrey Williamson (Accessed March 2011)

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Name	Williamson, Jeffrey G.
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Date of birth	1935
Place of birth	New England
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