Robert Z. Aliber | |
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| Born | September 19, 1930 Keene, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Died | June 22, 2025 (aged 94) Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Sub-discipline | international economics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Main interests | foreign direct investment |
Robert Zelwin Aliber (September 19, 1930 – June 22, 2025) was an American economist and professor of International Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago.[1] He was best known for his contribution to the theory of foreign direct investment. He gave the concept of foreign exchange rate in foreign direct investment. Aliber argued that a multinational corporation from hard currency area can borrow at lower rates in a soft currency country than can local firms.[citation needed]
Life and career
[edit]Aliber received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College (1952) and Bachelor of Arts (1954) and a Master of Arts (1957) from Cambridge University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He was a staff economist at the Commission on Money and Credit (1959–61) and at the Committee for Economic Development (1961–64). Aliber served as a senior economic advisor at the United States Agency for International Development (1964–65). He was appointed an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1964.[2]
He is mentioned in Michael Lewis's book Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World as having predicted the Icelandic financial crisis several years before it happened.
Aliber died on June 22, 2025, at the age of 94.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Robert Aliber". The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
- ^ "Robert Z. Aliber-Wilson Center Fellow". Woodrow Wilson Center website. Retrieved on April 11, 2011
- ^ "Robert Zelwin Aliber". Donnellan Family Funeral Services. Retrieved June 28, 2025.
