W. Robert Brazelton is an American economist, educator, and author. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.
Background
Ethnicity:
W. Robert Brazelton is of Scot and English descent.
W. Robert Brazelton was born on September 30, 1933, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. He is the son of Arthur Davis and Lela Dorothy Brazelton.
Education
In 1956 W. Robert Brazelton received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College. In 1960 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma. In 1961 Brazelton gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from this university.
Career
From 1959 to 1960 W. Robert Brazelton was an assistant professor of economics at Central State University (now University of Central Oklahoma) in Edmond, Oklahoma, United States. Following his graduation, he taught as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin in 1961 and as an assistant professor at Kansas State University from 1961 to 1963. He then took his talents to the University of Missouri-Kansas City and taught as a full professor from 1963 until his retirement in 1999.
In addition to teaching economics, Brazelton served as an editor for the Southwestern Journal of Economic Abstracts from 1979 to 1989 and as the editorial review board chairman for the Journal of Economics in 1988. For nearly five years, he was a member of the board of directors with Omicron Delta Epsilon. He published Alternate Paradigm in Economics in 1987, U.S. Economic Policy: An Analytical Biography of Leon H. Keyserling in 2001.
He has contributed articles to periodicals, including Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Economics, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
Views
W. Robert Brazelton: "My primary interest in writing is twofold: first, to analyze modern economics, especially 'Keynesian,' in light of historical events that change both theoretical paradigms and policy paradigms; second, to synthesize the major views of the Evolutionists ('Old' Institutionalists) and the Post-Keynesians. The major past influences upon me have been an undergraduate business cycle course on Hawtrey, Hayek, and Keynes; and a macro-cycle course, the latter at Oklahoma, plus their evolutionary influences. My major belief is that too much of economic analysis is constricted into too narrow a paradigm and, thus, ignores relevant social, historical, and psychological influences upon it and its participants. My major teaching areas are macroeconomic analysis, fiscal/monetary policy, and comparative/European economic systems." He counts Professor Louis Dow, Professor Cusick, and Leon H. Keyserling, as major personal academic influences.
Membership
W. Robert Brazelton is a member of the American Economic Association, the Missouri Valley Economic Association, the Midwest Economic Association, the Southwest Economic Association, and the Association for Comparative Economics.
Personality
W. Robert Brazelton enjoys traveling and has previously traveled to Italy, Albania, Europe, and Yugoslavia, among other locations.