William R. Allen (economist)

William Richard Allen
Born (1924-04-03) 3 April 1924
School or
tradition
Economics
Alma mater Cornell College
University of Chicago
Duke University

William Richard Allen is an American economist, professor and author. He is known for his authorship of economic literature alongside frequent co-author Armen Alchian.

Career

Allen obtained his A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) from Cornell College (1948) and his Ph.D. from Duke University (1953). He instructed at Washington University prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 1952. He has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, Southern Illinois University, and Texas A&M University, and he has been on the faculty of the Colorado School of Banking.

He has been a consultant to the Balance of Payments Division of the Department of Commerce and a director of the Yardney Corporation. He was Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1967–1969. A recipient of various scholarship awards as a student, his professional research (largely in International Economics, Monetary Economics, and the History of Economic Theory) has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Earhart Foundation. He has received the UCLA Alumni Association Award for the Art of Teaching, the Western Economic Association's Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Foundation at Valley Forge Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. He has been Vice President and President of the Western Economic Association, Vice President of the History of Economics Society, Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Economic Association, and a director of the University Professors for Academic Order. He was the economics correspondent of the California Political Review, on the editorial board of the Social Science Quarterly, and on the advisory board of the History of Political Economy. He has participated extensively in conference, seminar, and lecture programs. He has authored, co-authored, and edited nine books and has contributed widely to professional journals in the United States and elsewhere. In 1974, he was appointed the first President of the International Institute for Economic Research; he was then Vice President of the Institute for Contemporary Studies, with which the International Institute for Economic Research merged in 1986. From 1990-1992 he was an associate of the Reason Foundation.

He has been a nationally syndicated radio commentator and a newspaper columnist, a Los Angeles television commentator and an occasional magazine essayist. From 1978 to 1992 more than 200 radio stations carried daily broadcasts of “the Midnight Economist” written and delivered by Allen.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in History, Political Science (1948), Cornell College [1]

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (1953), Duke University [2]

Authorships and publications

Allen has published and edited nine books as well as publishing multiple articles in academic journals. Some of the more popular selections of Allen's works are listed below.

Previous positions

Other essays of William R Allen "Economics, Economists, and Economic Policy: Modern American Experiences," History of Political Economy, 9 Spring 1977, 48–88. "The Position of Mercantilism and the Early Development of International Trade Theory" in Robert V. Eagly, ed., Events, Ideology and Economic Theory (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968), 65–81, 84–106. "Modern Defenders of Mercantilist Theory," History of Political Economy, 2 (Fall 1970), 381–97. "Specie-Flow Mechanism," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, ed. by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1987), vol 4, 431–32. "Irving Fisher, F.D.R., and the Great Depression," History of Political Economy, 9 (Winter 1977), 560–87. "Irving Fisher and the 100 Percent Reserve Proposal," Journal of Law and Economics, XXXVI (October 1993), 703–17. "Effects on Trade of Shifting Reciprocal Demand Schedules," American Economic Review, XLII (March 1952), 135–40. "The International Monetary Fund and Balance of Payments Adjustment," Oxford Economic Papers, 13 (June 1961), 149–65. "Domestic Investment, the Foreign Trade Balance, and the World Bank," Kyklos, XV (1962), 353–73. "A note on the Condition for a Trade-Creating Customs Union," Western Economic Journal, V (December 1966), 64–67.

References

  1. http://econjwatch.org/authors/william-r-allen
  2. http://econjwatch.org/authors/william-r-allen
  3. http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-economist-Original-International-Institute/dp/0898030285
  4. Alchian, Armen Albert (1983). Exchange & production: competition, coordination & control. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co. ISBN 0-534-01320-1.
  5. http://www.amazon.com/Exchange-Production-Competition-Coordination-Control/dp/0534013201
  6. http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-economist-Original-International-Institute/dp/0898030285
  7. http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-economist-Original-International-Institute/dp/0898030285
  8. http://www.econ.ucla.edu/faculty/regular/Allen.html
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