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]
Peter W. Howitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 31, 1946 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Academic career | |
| Field | New Dynamics, Monetary economics, Macroeconomics |
| Institution | Brown University |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University University of Western Ontario McGill University |
| Doctoral advisor | John O. Ledyard |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic career
editHowitt 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
editBooks
edit- Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe (1998). Endogenous growth theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262011662.
Papers
edit- Howitt, Peter; Clower, Robert (1999). The emergence of economic organization. Cleveland.
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References
edit- ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 2019
- ^ "The Emergence of Economic Organization" (PDF). www.clevelandfed.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
External sources
edit- Academic CV
- Innovation, Competition and Growth: A Schumpeterian Perspective on Canada's Economy
- Peter Howitt publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)