- Ronald W. Jones
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field =Economics
work_institution =Rochester University
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footnotes =Ronald Winthrop "Ron" Jones is an influential international trade economist and Xerox Professor of Economics at the
University of Rochester . His recent highly acclaimed book "Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade" (2000) summarizes much of his past work and also discusses the recent market trend toward fragmentation and outsourcing of the production process.Professor Jones also is an author of "World Trade and Payments" (with Richard E. Caves and Jeffrey A. Frankel), an upper-level college textbook which focuses on international economics.
He earned an A.B. from
Swarthmore College in 1952 and a Ph.D. from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.External links
* [http://www.econ.rochester.edu Department of Economics, University of Rochester]
* [http://www.econ.rochester.edu/Faculty/jones/jones.htm Homepage of Ron Jones]
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