Robert
Mundell
Robert
Mundell is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics at Columbia University
in New York. For the past twenty-five years, Robert Mundell has been a Professor
of Economics at Columbia University in New York. He studied at the University
of British Columbia and the London School of Economics before receiving his Ph.D.
from MIT. He taught at Stanford University and the Bologna (Italy) Center of the
School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University before
joining the staff of the International Monetary Fund. He was a Professor of Economics
at the University of Chicago and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy. He
was also Summer Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute
of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Mundell has lectured
widely in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. He has
been an adviser to a number of international agencies and organizations including
the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the Government of Canada, several
governments in Latin America and Europe, the Federal Reserve Board and the US
Treasury. The author of numerous works and articles on economic theory of international
economics, he is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas.
He has written extensively on the history of the international monetary system
and played a significant role in the founding of the Euro. He has also written
extensively on the "transition" economies and in 1997 co-founded the Zagreb Journal
of Economics. Professor Mundell has received quite a number of awards and distinctions,
the latest being the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. He has also received
honorary degrees and professorships in several universities in North America,
Europe and Asia.