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Robert Blecker

Department Chair, Economics
Economics

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Affiliated Faculty, School of International Service
  • Professor Blecker’s research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, the value of the dollar and the U.S. trade deficit, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to export-led growth strategies in developing countries, and trade policy in the U.S. steel industry. His teaching fields include international economics, macroeconomics, history of economic thought, and political economy.
  • Degrees

    PhD and MA, Economics, Minor in Political Science, Stanford University
    Graduate Studies in Economics, Centro de Estudios Economicos y Demograficos, El Colegio de Mexico
    AB, Economics, Yale University
  • Languages Spoken:

    English, Spanish
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Teaching

  • Fall 2009

  • Spring 2010

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

 Books and Monographs

  • Taming Global Finance: A Better Architecture for Growth and Equity. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 1999.
  • Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy: Economics, Politics, Laws, and Issues,second edition (co-authored with Stephen D. Cohen and Peter D. Whitney). Boulder, CO: Westview, 2003.

Articles in Referred Journals

Book Chapters

  • “Financial Globalization, Exchange Rates, and International Trade,” in Financialization and the World Economy, edited by Gerald Epstein. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton,MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2005, pp. 183-209.
  • “U.S. Steel Import Tariffs: The Politics of Global Markets,” in Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, 3rd edition, edited by Ralph G. Carter,Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008, pp. 249-80.
  • “Steel,” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, edited by Kenneth A. Reinert and Ramkishen S. Rajan, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Invited Articles and Policy Papers

 

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • American University, University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in a Full-time Appointment, 2005.

Work In Progress

 

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Area of Expertise: International trade; balance of payments, exchange rates, and the U.S. trade deficit; macroeconomics; U.S. steel industry; global finance

Additional Information: Robert A. Bleckeris the author of Taming Global Finance (Economic Policy Institute, 1999) and coauthor of Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy (Westview, 2003).

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