Robert Mundell

Robert Alexander Mundell, CC (born October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) is a Canadian economist. Currently, he is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Robert Mundell, 1998

Quotes

• The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.
  • Robert Mundell in: "Nobel Laureate: The U.S. Is The 'Naked Woman' Of The World Economy," at forbes.com, May 26, 2013

• The euro is the way in which congresses and parliaments can be stripped of all power over monetary and fiscal policy. Bothersome democracy is removed from the economic system.
  • Robert Mundell to his student Greg Palast at the University of Chicago

Quotes about Robert Mundell

• Mundell’s models allowed a significant role for fiscal policy, especially under fixed exchange rates. However, the treatment was entirely Keynesian—an increased budget deficit operated solely by raising the aggregate demand for goods. Moreover, increases in government spending and cuts in taxes had pretty much the same effect on the economy.
  • Robert Barro, Nothing Is Sacred (2002) p. 23

• Consider John Kenneth Galbraith or Lester Thurow, both leading economists in the view of the general public, both with all the formal qualifications, both totally ignored by the academic mainstream. Or consider Robert Mundell, who is still revered for his contributions to international monetary theory, yet whose later incarnation as the father of supply-side economics has similarly been ignored.
  • Paul Krugman, Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (1995)

• The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do.
  • Greg Palast, "Robert Mundell, evil genius of the euro", The Guardian, 26 June 2012