Background
BODKIN, Ronald George was born in 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
BODKIN, Ronald George was born in 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 1957. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1959, 1962.
Instructor, Lector, University Pennsylvania, 1957-1960, 1961-1962. Lector, Assistant Professor, Research Staff, Visiting Research Association, Cowles Foundation, Yale University, 1962-1965,1971-1972. Visiting Lector, University Colorado, 1964.
Association Professor, Professor, University West. Ontario,
1965-1975.
Director, CANDIDE Project, Economics Council Canada, 19724. Professor Invité d’économétrie, University Genève, 1984.
Professor of Economics, University Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, since 1975. Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Economics,
1968-1970, International Economic Record 1969, Eastern Economics J., 1973-1976, and J. Post Keyn.
Under the guidance of Irwin Friend, my research interests began with a study of the consumption function in general and the permanent income hypothesis in particular. Lawrence R. Klein came to the University of Pennsylvania in 1958 and interested me in a variety of problems in theoretical and applied econometrics. During the 1960s I was strongly interested in wage-price macroeconomics, as I was still confident at that time that a stable trade-off curve existed (into the indefinite future) between the goals of full employment and price stability.
I still retain an interest in wage-price theory and policy, such as tax-based incomes policy. From 19724- I headed a project team concerned with a major Canadian econometric model, CANDIDE, and this sparked my current interest in writing a history of macroeconometric modelling, which I am doing with Kanta Marwah of Carleton University and Professor Lawrence R. Klein. This current project ties in with a maverick interest that I have had for some time in the history of economic thought.