Background
Nathaniel H. was born in 1938 in New York City, United States.
Nathaniel H. was born in 1938 in New York City, United States.
Nathaniel studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. In 1959 he received a degree of the Bachelor of Arts. In three years he was a student of the Columbia University in New York City, United States. He became a Master of Arts. In 1966 Nathaniel studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He received a degree of the Doctor of Philosophy in the area of Political Science.
Nathaniel worked at the Research Association of the Studies Center of Education and Development, Center of the International Affairs, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States from 1965 to 1967. In this year he became an assistant professor of the Columbia Business School in New York, United States. he worked there for three years. Since 1970 Nathaniel was an associate professor at the Columbia Business School in New York, United States. He worked there until 1973. From 1972 to 1973 he worked as an associate professor at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. In this year he became a professor of Business Economics and International Business, Graduate Business School, Columbia University in New York, United States. Since 1977 Nathaniel worked as a visiting professor at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
I am interested in the economics of the less developed countries and have focussed mainly on positive analysis. Preferring to work within a well-specified framework, I did much of my early work in the context of a single country, Brazil. That research included an industry study (on an industry whose rapid development raised questions concerning some accepted assumptions in the field of development economics), and a book on economic policy-making.
That work led to research on macroeconomic and trade problems. Subsequent papers have focussed on savings behavior, macroeconomic adjustment, transfer of technology, industrial organization and entrepreneurship. I have found economic theory a very useful tool for understanding less developed economies.
In addition, I have found historical studies valuable for clarifying the analytics of long-term development. In that vein, I have done a two-volume study of Brazil’s economic experience in the 125 years between Independence and World War II. This time span raises interesting analytical questions, for it includes both a long period of relative stagnation and the shift (circa 1900) to sustained, rapid development. More recently, I have been working on macroeconomic adjustment, on approaches to investment choice and on the use of research.