Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ronald E. Findlay is the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics at Columbia University, New York. He joined Columbia in 1969 first as a visiting professor and was appointed a professor in 1970. His research focus has been on international trade amd economic development, and he takes what has been desecribed as a political economy perspective. He has a BA from Rangoon University, Burma (1954) and a PhD from MIT (1960). He worked at Rangoon University as an economist first as a tutor (1954-57), then as a lecturer (1960-66), and finally as a research professor of (1966-68).