Ronald W. Jones

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
Born
Ronald Winthrop Jones

(1931-07-05)July 5, 1931
DiedSeptember 27, 2022(2022-09-27) (aged 91)
Alma materMIT
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
Doctoral advisorRobert Solow
Doctoral studentsEric 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.

See also

  • Neary, J. Peter; Helpman, Elhanan; Ethier, Wilfred (1993). Theory, policy and dynamics in international trade: essays in honor of Ronald W Jones. Cambridge New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521434423.

References

  1. Ronald W. Jones
  2. Ronald Winthrop Jones (2000). Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-10086-1.
  3. Richard E. Caves; Jeffrey A. Frankel; Ronald Winthrop Jones (2007). World Trade and Payments: An Introduction. Pearson Addison Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-22660-0.


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