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Cooper, Richard Newell was born on June 14, 1934 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Richard Warren and Lucile (Newell) Cooper.
( Paul Samuelson judges that Gottfried Haberler’s work “s...)
Paul Samuelson judges that Gottfried Haberler’s work “should qualify him for about two-and-a-half Nobel Prizes in economics—one for his quantum improvement in trade theory beyond Ricardo’s paradigm of labor’s comparative advantage, one for his definitive synthesis of business cycle theory, and beyond these his policy wisdom over a period of six decades.” It is Haberler’s “policy wisdom” that serves as the basis for this comprehensive collection of the eminent economist’s work.Throughout the book, Haberler’s contributions demonstrate the clarity of his analyses for exploring the complex economics of policy issues and for identifying key governmental responses to problems of unemployment, trade, and development. Presenting Haberler as the eclectic economist he is, the editors show that far from being an ideologue, Haberler is an economist who uses whatever approaches and theories are appropriate for the problems he considers. The portrait that emerges is one of a multifaceted thinker, able to choose freely among competing theories and to effectively apply them to complex and demanding policy issues.
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( These eleven essays written over the past fifteen years...)
These eleven essays written over the past fifteen years continue and develop Richard Cooper's central theme of interdependence, reflecting his experience in government in the Council of Economic Advisers and as Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs. They focus in particular on the opportunities and constraints for national economic policy in an environment where goods, services, capital, and even labor are increasingly mobile.The first four chapters are informal, discursive treatments of economic and foreign policies in the face of growing interdependence among nations.The remaining chapters cover such specialist topics as optimal regional integration, the integration of world capital markets, the impact of greater interdependence on the effectiveness of domestic economic policy, the comparison of monetary and fiscal policy under fixed and flexible exchange rates, currency evaluation in developing countries, and the appropriate size and composition of a developing country's external debt. A concluding chapter surveys the preceding essays in terms of coordinating macroeconomic policymaking in an interdependent world economy. Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economy at Harvard University.
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Drawing on preliminary results from a massive study conducted by the World Bank to probe the links between stabilization and growth, Cooper examines the experience of developing countries faced by the oil shocks of the 1970s and the debt crisis of the 1980s. He points out that a global slowdown in growth has shifted the main economic concern in developing countries from long-term growth to stabilization and adjustment. Cooper takes into account the cross-country variables that influence the degree to which a country is affected negatively or positively by external shocks and covers such topics as political organization and external debt resolution.The first chapter focuses on countries that experienced adverse shocks from the sharp increase in oil prices beginning in 1974. It also addresses countries that should have benefited from the oil price increase, and from a comparable increase in coffee prices, for which events turned out to be less favorable than they seemed. The second chapter analyzes the "disabsorption" a country faces when it can no longer rely on foreign lending or advantageous terms of trade; it also looks at inflationary pressures and at the role of the International Monetary Fund in designing stabilization programs for its member countries. The third chapter discusses the main influences on a country's economic performance and also discusses the lessons offered for successful stabilization and long-term growth.Moving from individual developing nations to the world economic system, the final two chapters examine the question of external debt and why it has proved to be such an international stumbling block, offering suggestions on how it might be resolved.Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University.
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Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment reviews the macroeconomic experiences of eighteen developing countries from 1974 to 1989. The authors address why the experiences and policy reactions have differed among the countries, and how their individual growth rates were affected by these policy reactions.
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(As midnight approached the first day of the year 2000, op...)
As midnight approached the first day of the year 2000, optimists and pessimists waited to see if the world would be different in the seconds ahead. But nothing changed...or did it? In Brave New Church the Reverend Richard Kew asks us to step back from all the hoopla and look critically at where the church is at the beginning of this new century, and where it is headed. Kew is no novice to observing trends today; in previous books he correctly identified many of the religious trends in the 1990s. Now Kew turns his attention to what is emerging in the new century and examines how the increasing globalization, eccelsiastical reconfigurations, fiscal and demographic realities, the internet, and other challenges confront the church. Written in a non-technical and conversational style, each chapter also includes study questions plus suggestions for additional reading and web resources, making this an excellent book for classroom and parish study. Richard Kew is a priest, future-watcher, and author. He is involved in online theological education, and has spent much of his ministry involved in global mission. He has co-authored several books, including Vision Bearers: Dynamic Evangelism in the 21st Century (1996), Toward 2015: A Church Odyssey (1996), and New Millennium, New Church (1992). He lives in Murfeesboro, Tennessee.
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Cooper, Richard Newell was born on June 14, 1934 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Richard Warren and Lucile (Newell) Cooper.
AB, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1956. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Oberlin College, Ohio, 1978. Master of Science, London School of Economics, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1966. Doctor (honorary), University Paris II, 2000.
Assistant Lector, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1958. Senior Staff Economics, United States President's Council Economics Advisers, 1961-1963. Assistant Professor, Professor of Economics, Provost, Yale University, 1963-1965, 1966-1977, 1972-1974.
Deputy Assistant Secretary International Monetary Affairs,
Under Secretary Economics Affairs, United States Department State, 1965-1966. 1977-1981; Consultant, United States Department Treasury, 1963-1969, Agency International Development, 1967-1969, United States National Security Council, 1969-1970, Harvard Development Advisory Service, 1970-1972, United States Navy, since 1975. Maurits C. Boas Professor International Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Editorial Boards, Journal of International Economics, 1970, Foreign Policy, 1970-1977, Quarterly Journal of Economics, since 1981.
( Paul Samuelson judges that Gottfried Haberler’s work “s...)
( Drawing on preliminary results from a massive study con...)
( These eleven essays written over the past fifteen years...)
(These essays on the international monetary system continu...)
(As midnight approached the first day of the year 2000, op...)
(Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment reviews the macroeconomic ex...)
Author: Economics of Interdependence, 1968, Currency Devaluation in Developing Countries, 1971, Economic Policy in an Interdependent World, 1986, The International Monetary System, 1987, Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries, 1992. Author: (with others) Boom, Crisis and Adjustment, 1993. Author: Environmental and Resource Policies for the World Economy, 1994.Editor, contributor: A Reordered World, 1973, The International Monetary System under Flexible Exchange Rates, 1982, Can Nations Agree?, 1989, Trade Growth in Transition Economies, 1997, What the Future Holds, 2002. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Most of my published work has been concerned with trade policy, the workings of the international monetary system, macroeconomic management of open economies, and the analysis of currency devaluations. It has often been motivated by experience in the United States government and as a consultant for other governments or policy-oriented institutes. As a result, it has a strong empirical and even institutional flavour compared with much professional writing, taking into account some of the constraints that policy-makers face in the short run, and being concerned with the process by which the constraints may be relaxed in the longer run.
It has occasionally involved excursions into economic history of the nineteenth century and earlier. A central theme of my major book, The Economics of Interdependence and some subsequent
work has been that countries find themselves working under constraints imposed by the markets in which they trade goods, services and financial claims, and that the evolution of these markets will over time alter the opportunities and effectiveness of traditional economic policy actions and create new opportunities for different actions. In particular, relatively open economies will face a different set of constraints and opportunities from those of relatively closed ones.
I have also been concerned with the gains to be derived from international co-operation in economic management, both among economically advanced countries and between them and less developed countries, including energy policies, commodity policies, and foreign aid as well as macroeconomic policies.
Trustee Oberlin College, 1993-1998. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Economic Association, Council Foreign Relations.
Married Carolyn Jane Cahalan, June 5, 1956 (divorced 1980). Children: Laura Katherine, Mark Daniel. Married Ann Lorraine Hollick, January 1, 1982 (divorced 1994).
Married Jin Chen, October 13, 2000. Children: William Chen, Jennifer.