Raymond Mikesell
Raymond Frech Mikesell (1913 – September 12, 2006) was an
Mikesell was born in Eaton, Ohio. He received a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University (OSU) and, in 1939, received a doctorate in economics from OSU. From 1937 to 1941, he was assistant professor at the University of Washington.
During
Mikesell served the U.S. government in a number of capacities, including serving as representative of the
He served as a consultant to the World Bank, the
Mikesell joined the University of Virginia department of Economics as professor in 1946 and accepted the W.E. Miner Chair at the University of Oregon in 1957, where he taught until 1993. He served as vice president for the Academy of International Business on the 1971–1972 board and was elected as an AIB Fellow in 1981. He was an avid tennis player and active outdoorsman, and he often took his doctoral students hiking before advising them on their dissertations as they sat around a campfire.
Mikesell died at his home in Eugene, Oregon, aged 93, from natural causes.
Selected publications
"The Key Currency Proposal," Quarterly Journal of Economics 59.4:563-576 (August 1945)
"Negotiating at Bretton Woods, 1944," in R. Dennett and J.E. Johnson, edd., Negotiating With the Russians (Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1951), pp. 101–16
The Economics of Foreign Aid, Chicago, 1968 (reprinted New Brunswick, N.J., 2007)
"A National Retail Sales Tax? Some Thoughts on Taxing Consumption the American way," State Tax Notes 11:105-09 (July 8, 1996); cf. "A National Sales Tax? Taxing Consumption the American Way," Tax Notes 72:523-27 (July 22, 1996)
"Bretton Woods - Original Intentions and Current Problems," Contemporary Economic Policy 18.4:404-14 (October 2000)
"The Meltzer Commission Report on International Institutions," Economic Development and Cultural Change 49.4:[883]-94 (July 2001)
Sources
- Nolan, Rebecca. (2006, September 14). UO professor, Bretton Woods economist, dies at age 93. The Register-Guard, Eugene
- Staff and Wire Reports. (2006, September 17). Raymond Mikesell, 93; Economist Helped in Postwar Rebuilding. The Los Angeles Times
- University of Oregon, Department of Economics Annual Newsletter, Fall 2006
- Biography in R. Dennett and J.E. Johnson, edd., Negotiating With the Russians (Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1951), p. 100.
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