Background
FISHLOW, Albert was born in 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
(452 page hard cover 1971 Second Edition book detailing th...)
452 page hard cover 1971 Second Edition book detailing the economic history of the rail industry and transportation after the Civil War.
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FISHLOW, Albert was born in 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts University Pennsylvania, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy Harvard University, 1963.
Acting Assistant Professor, Association Professor, Professor, University California Berkeley, 1961-1963, 1963-1966, 1966-1978. Visiting Research Association, National Bureau of Economie Research, New York, New York, United States of America, 1963-1964. Director, Brazil Development Assistant Project, 1965-1970.
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College Oxford, 1972-1973.
Deputy Assistant Secretary State Interamer. Affairs, 1975-1976; Professor of Economics, Director, Yale Center International and Area Studies, 1978-1983.
Visiting Ford Research Professor of Economics, University California Berkeley, 1982-1983. Professor of Economics, University California Berkeley, California, United States of America, since 1983.
Chairman, Editorial Board, International Organization, 1983-1984, Foreign Policy, since 1977.
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My initial focus was upon United States economic history, and especially the determinants of its highly successful transition from an agricultural to an industrial nation. This interest motivated my studies of infrastructure investment in railroads, technological change in that sector and the contribution of education to United States economic growth. A subsequent phase of my career, from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, was dominated by issues of Brazilian economic development, both the longer trends of change and the shorter-term effects of public policy.
This grew out of a period of residence in Brazil working in the research divisions of the Ministry of Planning and was a logical extension of my academic concerns applied to contemporary problems. I studied not only central aspects of the strategy of import substitution but also the income distribution consequences of the Brazilian developmental pattern and the economic policies of an authoritarian regime.
A third set of interests covering the last decade have been international economic relations and United States foreign economic policy. I have worked on North-South economic issues, including trade in manufactured products and the results of economic integration.
Relations between the United States and Latin America. And, especially, the problem of developing country external debt. Most recently, I have been engaged in research emphasising comparative analysis: the nineteenth-century capital market in comparison with the twentieth, the differential response of Latin American countries to development opportunities in the 1960s and 1970s, and their contrast with the East Asian style.
These themes reflect a search for
political economic generalisations that can illuminate the wide differences in national experiences. As in the past, I have tried to understand the complex workings of market forces, and their limitations. So there has been continuity as well as change during the last 20 years.