Peter Howitt (economist)

Peter W. Howitt
Born (1946-05-31) May 31, 1946 (age 78)
NationalityCanadian
Academic career
FieldNew Dynamics, Monetary economics, Macroeconomics
InstitutionBrown University
Alma materNorthwestern University
University of Western Ontario
McGill University
Doctoral
advisor
John O. Ledyard
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Peter Wilkinson Howitt (born May 31, 1946) is a Canadian economist. He is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. Howitt is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994 and a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada since 1992. He served as president of the Canadian Economics Association in 1993–1994 and was the editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking in the period 1997–2000.[citation needed] For 2019 he received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics.[1]

Academic career

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Howitt received his BA in economics from McGill University, afterward, gaining his Master's in economics from the University of Western Ontario. Howitt finally obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University.

Selected works

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Books

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  • Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe (1998). Endogenous growth theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262011662.

Papers

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  • Howitt, Peter; Clower, Robert (1999). The emergence of economic organization. Cleveland.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[2]

References

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  1. ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 2019
  2. ^ "The Emergence of Economic Organization" (PDF). www.clevelandfed.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.

External sources

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