economist university professor
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. M. 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: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2007).
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 2011, Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
