In Memoriam
Professor Richard N. Cooper was Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University and held the position from 1981-2021.
Previously, he had been
Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97)
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1990-1992)
Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-81) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-66) for the U.S. Department of State
Provost (1972-74), Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics (1966-77), and assistant professor (1963-65) at Yale University
Senior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (1961-63)
Honors and professional activities included
Director and Chairman
Advisory Committee, Institute for International Economics
Director
Circuit City Stores
Phoenix Companies
Center for Naval Analysis
Member
Trilateral Commission
Council on Foreign Relations
Aspen Strategy Group
Executive Panel, Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity
Book reviewer for Foreign Affairs
Former director
Oberlin College
Warburg-Pincus Funds
Overseas Development Council
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
German Marshall Fund
World Peace Foundation
J. Henry Schroder Bank and Trust Co.
Panama Canal Company
Centre for European Policy Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Former member
National Research Council Panels
on Technology Transfer
on Public Policy toward Global Warming
on Foreign Trade Statistics
on Government Assistance to Civilian Technology
Advisory Committee of the Committee for Economic Development
Economic Policy Committee of the United Nations Association
Former associate editor
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Foreign Policy
Former consultant to
Council of Economic Advisers
National Security Council
U.S. State Department
U.S. Treasury Dept.
United Nations
World Bank
Awards included
Foreign Affairs Award, U.S. State Department, 1981
National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, 1996
Prof. Cooper wrote extensively on international economic policy. Selected publications include
The Economics of Interdependence, Columbia University Press, 1968
A Re-ordered World (editor and contributor), 1973
Economic Policy in an Interdependent World, 1986
The International Monetary System, 1987
Can Nations Agree? (co-author), 1989
Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries, 1992
Boom, Crisis and Adjustment: the Macroeconomic Experience of Developing Countries(co-author), 1993
Environment and Resource Policies for the World Economy, 1994
Macroeconomic Policy and Adjustment in Korea, 1970-1990 (editor and contributor), 1994
Trade Growth in Transition Economies (co-editor and contributor), 1997
What the Future Holds (co-editor and contributor), 2002
"The Balance of Payments in Review," Journal of Political Economy, 1966
"Uncertainty and Diversification in International Trade" (with W. C. Brainard), Stanford Studies in Agricultural Economics, Trade, and Development, 1968
"Macroeconomic Policy Adjustment in Interdependent Economies," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969
"Prolegomena to the Choice of an International Monetary System," International Organization, 1975
"A New International Economic Order for Mutual Gain," Foreign Policy, 1977
"The Gold Standard: Historical Facts and Future Prospects," Brookings Papers in Economic Activity, 1982
"A Monetary System for the Future," Foreign Affairs, 1984
"Economic Interdependence and the Coordination of Economic Policies," R. Jones and P. Kenen (eds.), Handbook in International Economics, 1985
"Is Growth in Developing Countries Beneficial to Industrial Countries?" World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 1995
"Toward a Global Warming Treaty," Foreign Affairs, 1998
"Should Capital Controls Be Banished?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1999
"Growth and Inequality: the Role of Foreign Trade and Investment," World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2001/2002
"International Approaches to Global Climate Change," World Bank Research Observer, 2000
"Toward a Common Currency?" International Finance, 2000
"A Chapter 11 for Countries?" Foreign Affairs, 2002
"A Half Century of Development," World Bank Conference on Development, 2005
as well as over three hundred articles.