Ronald Findlay

Ronald Edsel Findlay (born 1935) is the Professor of Economics at Columbia University, 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 include:

• with Kevin H. O'Rourke, 2007, "Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium", Princeton University Press
• with Ronald W. Jones, 2001, "Input Trade and the Location of Production", The American Economic Review
• 1996 "Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries, and Frontiers", The American Economic Review
• with Richard Clarida, 1992, "Government, Trade, and Comparative Advantage", The American Economic Review (1992);
• 1992 "The Roots of Divergence: Western Economic History in Comparative Perspective", The American Economic Review
• with Stanislaw Wellisz, 1988, "The State and the Invisible Hand", World Bank Research Observer
• 1984 "Trade and Development: Theory and Asian Experience", Asian Development Review, Vol 2, No. 2
• An "Austrian" Model of International Trade and Interest Rate Equalization, in Journal of Political Economy