Mundell, Robert A.

Mundell, Robert A.

▪ Canadian economist
in full  Robert Alexander Mundell 
born October 24, 1932, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

      Canadian-born economist who received the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 1999 for his work on monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas.

      Mundell attended the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1953), the University of Washington (M.A., 1954), the London School of Economics, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1956). He was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at the University of Chicago (1956–57), where he later served as a professor of economics (1966–71) and as an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. In 1974 he joined the faculty of Columbia University, New York City.

      In the early 1960s, while working in the research department of the International Monetary Fund, Mundell began his macroeconomic analysis of exchange rates and their effect on monetary policies. In 1961 he put forward the theory that a single currency would be viable in an economic region, or optimum currency area, in which there was free movement of labour and trade. As the first economist to study the effect of floating exchange rates (that is, allowing market forces to determine the exchange rate rather than having government try to fix its value in terms of another currency or commodity), Mundell introduced foreign trade and capital movements into earlier closed economy models to show that it was the extent of international capital mobility that influenced stabilization policies. He concluded that a country's rate of exchange was determined in capital markets by the willingness and desire of people to possess the currency of that country. This in turn was determined by their perception of national economic prospects, inflation, and monetary policies. Mundell's groundbreaking theories played a key role in the creation of the euro, the single currency adopted by 11 of the 15 members of the European Union on January 1, 1999. Mundell's other break with tradition was his advocacy, as early as the early 1970s, of using tight money (i.e., constraints on growth of the money supply) to reduce inflation and cuts in tax rates to give incentives that would cause the real economy to grow.

      Mundell served as an adviser to several governments, including the United States during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and worked for such international organizations as the World Bank. Among his notable books are Man and Economics (1968) and Monetary Theory: Interest, Inflation and Growth in the World Economy (1971).

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