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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

Ronald Winthrop Jones

(1931-07-05)July 5, 1931
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.

September 27, 2022(2022-09-27) (aged 91)

MIT

Economics

University of Rochester

Robert Solow

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.

; 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.

Neary, J. Peter

Department of Economics, University of Rochester