Ronald Winthrop Jones (July 5, 1931 – September 27, 2022)[1] was an influential international trade economist and retired Xerox Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. His highly acclaimed book Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade[2] summarizes much of his past work and also discusses the recent market trend toward fragmentation and outsourcing of the production process.
Ronald W. Jones | |
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Born | Ronald Winthrop Jones July 5, 1931 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | September 27, 2022 | (aged 91)
Alma mater | MIT |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics |
Institutions | University of Rochester |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
Doctoral students | Eric Bond Makoto Yano |
Professor Jones also is an author of World Trade and Payments[3](with Richard E. Caves and Jeffrey Frankel), an upper-level college textbook that focuses on international economics.
He earned an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1952 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.