Werner Baer
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Werner Baer | |
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Born | Offenbach, Germany | December 13, 1931
Died | March 31, 2016 Urbana, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 84)
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Field | Brazilian economics, Development economics |
Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD,MA) Queens College, City University of New York (B.A.) |
Werner Baer (May 6, 1931 – March 31, 2016) was an American economist at the
Baer's research and writing focused primarily on the areas of industrialization, growth and economic development, public policy, inflation, and income distribution and equity.
He had a distinguished record of scholarly achievement, including such books as Industrialization and Economic Development in Brazil (1965), The Development of the Brazilian Steel Industry (1970) The Brazilian Economy: Its Growth and Development (1979), now in its sixth edition, as well as a lengthy stream of articles on a diverse range of economic and policy issues.
One of the unique aspects of Baer's work is the link he makes between historical, social, and institutional legacies of the Brazilian past and his direct and ongoing engagement with the most current issues of economic and public policy.
He served on the editorial boards of the Luso-Brazilian Review, Emerging Markets Review, Economia Aplicada, Latin American Business Review, Revista Latinoamericana de Historica Economica y Social, Revista Paraguaya de Estudios Sociologicos, Latin American Research Review, and World Development.
He taught at Yale (1961–65), Vanderbilt (1965–74), and the University of Illinois (1974–2016), and he served as a program advisor for the Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro from 1967 to 1976. He encouraged large numbers of young people to enter Brazilian studies and recruited many, from both the United States and Brazil, to undertake doctoral studies in economics under his direction.
Baer's multiple contributions have been widely recognized in Brazil. He received the prestigious Rio Branco Medal from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (December 2000), the Medalha de Honra da Inconfidência from the state of Minas Gerais (1995), and the National Order of the Southern Cross from the government of Brazil (1982).
Carlos Alberto Braga, an economist at
His book, The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development, is one of the only comprehensive studies in English of all aspects of Brazil's economic development, and is currently in its 7th edition.
He served as a visiting lecturer at the
Werner Baer died after a sudden and brief illness on March 31, 2016.[3][4]
References
- ^ Braga, Carlos A. Primo, (2006)Import Substitution Industrialization in Latin America: Experience and Lessons for the Future. A paper prepared for a seminar in honor of Professor Werner Baer, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 1–2, 2006.
- ^ "Werner Baer « People « Department of Economics, University of Illinois". www.economics.illinois.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-03-07.
- ^ "Professor Werner Baer".
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