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'''Jeffrey Gale Williamson''' (born 1935) is the ''[[Laird Bell]]'' Professor of [[Economics]] (Emeritus), Harvard University; an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin (Madison)]]; Research Associate at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]; and Research Fellow for the [[Center for Economic and Policy Research]]. He also served (1994–1995) as the president of the [[Economic History Association]]. His research focus is and has been on comparative [[economic history]] and the history of the international economy and development.<ref name="Harv">http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/williamson/bio {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501004222/http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/williamson/bio |date=2011-05-01 }} Harvard University: Jeffrey Williamson - Biography (Accessed March 2011)</ref><ref name="iza">http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html?key=728 IZA: Biography of Jeffrey Williamson (Accessed March 2011)</ref> Economist [[Hilary Hoynes|Hilary Williamson Hoynes]] is his daughter.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=522|title=An Interview with Bell Award Recipient Hilary Hoynes|last=Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach|newspaper=CSWEP News}}</ref><br />
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== Selected publications ==<br />
* with T. Hatton, 1998, ''The Age of Mass Migration'', Oxford<br />
* with P. Aghion, 1998, ''Growth, Inequality, and Globalization'', Mattioli Lectures: Cambridge<br />
* with K. O'Rourke, 1999, ''Globalization and History'', MIT<br />
* with [[Michael D. Bordo|M. Bordo]] and [[Alan M. Taylor|A. M. Taylor]], 2003, ''Globalization in Historical Perspective'', Chicago and NBER<br />
* with Timothy J. Hatton, 2005, ''Global Migration and the World Economy. Two Centuries of Policy and Performance'', [[The MIT Press]].<br />
* 2011, ''Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<br />
* with Peter H. Lindert, 2016, ''[http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10670.html Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700].'' [[Princeton University Press]].<br />
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== Festschrift ==<br />
T.J. Hatton. K. H. O'Rourke and A. M. Taylor (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2007)<br />
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