Peter Howitt (economist)

Peter Wilkinson Howitt (born May 31, 1946) is a Canadian economist. He is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. Howitt is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994 and a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada since 1992. He served as president of the Canadian Economics Association in 1993–1994 and was the editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking in the period 1997–2000.^{[citation needed]} For 2019 he received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics.^[1]

Peter W. Howitt
Born	(1946-05-31) May 31, 1946 (age 78)
Nationality	Canadian
Academic career
Field	New Dynamics, Monetary economics, Macroeconomics
Institution	Brown University
Alma mater	Northwestern University University of Western Ontario McGill University
Doctoral advisor	John O. Ledyard
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Academic career

Howitt received his BA in economics from McGill University, afterward, gaining his Master's in economics from the University of Western Ontario. Howitt finally obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University.

Selected works

Books

• Howitt, Peter; Aghion, Philippe (1998). Endogenous growth theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262011662.

Papers

• Howitt, Peter; Clower, Robert (1999). The emergence of economic organization. Cleveland.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)^[2]

References

1. BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards 2019
2. "The Emergence of Economic Organization" (PDF). www.clevelandfed.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.

External sources

• Academic CV
• Innovation, Competition and Growth: A Schumpeterian Perspective on Canada's Economy
• Peter Howitt publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)