Emeritus Faculty Directory

Richard Caves

Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Industrial organization, competition policy and regulation, international competition and multi-national enterprise, economics and the arts.
Research Topics: Turnover of business units in national and international markets, competition within industries to install "sunk" investments, economic organization of "creative" activities.

James Duesenberry (In Memoriam)

Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Primary Fields of Interest: Inflation theory, monetary policy in developing countries.
Research Topics:

Hendrik Houthakker (In Memoriam)

Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Ph.D.
Primary Fields of Interest:
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János Kornai

Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Ph.D. Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Primary Fields of Interest: Socialist Economics, Post-Socialist transaction
Research Topics: The reform of the welfare state, the reform of the health sector, institutional transformation, macroeconomic adjustment and stabilization programs in transition economics

David Landes

Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest:
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Dwight Perkins

Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic development, especially the development and history of the economics of East and Southeast Asia.
Research Topics: Issues connected with the transition to market economy in China and Vietnam. Comparative analysis of the role of the state in the development of East and Southeast Asia.

Henry Rosovsky

Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Japan, higher education.
Research Topics: Professional ethics as applied to university faculties.

Jeffrey Williamson

Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Ph.D. Stanford
Primary Fields of Interest: Economic history, international, development.
Research Topics: Growth, accumulation, inequality during industrial revolutions past and present; migration, urbanization, the demographic transition in developing countries; globalization and history; economic change in the Third World before 1940.