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Andrew Martin Kamarck (died 3 March 2010) was an American
economist, Director of the
Economic Development Institute at the
World Bank and
Regents Professor at
University of California, Los Angeles.
In 1936, Kamarck got his BA
summa cum laude at
Harvard University.
[1] In 1951, he got his
Ph.D at Harvard.
[1] He worked for the
Federal Reserve Board and, during
World War II, he "was posted to the
Allied Control Commission for Italy, where he supervised the
Banca d'Italia". In 1944, he "was assigned as Chief of the
U.S. Financial Intelligence in
Germany".
[2]
He then continued to work for the
United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1946, contributing to the "policy guidelines for the
Marshall Plan." He later became World Bank Economic Adviser, Professor at University of California, Los Angeles (1964–65) "and Research Associate at the
Harvard Center of International Affairs.
[2]
Publications
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Reviewed by
Robert P. Armstrong. In:
The American Economic Review, vol. 57, no. 5, 1967, p. 1339-1342.
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The Appraisal of Country Economic Performance. In:
Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 153-165, 1970.
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Capital and Investment in Developing Countries. In:
Finance and Development, vol. 8, p. 2, 1971.
- The Economics of African Development. Praeger, 1971.
ISBN
978-0-275-28030-7
- Climate and economic development. Economic Development Institute, 1972
- Climate and economic development. Seminar paper. Economic Development Institute,
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1975.
ASIN
B00072XWDS
- The Tropics and Economic Development: A Provocative Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations. Baltimore/London:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. (for the
World Bank)
ISBN
978-0-8018-1891-2
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Reviewed by
William Diebold Jr.,
Foreign Affairs, April 1977.
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Reviewed by Mark Perlman. In:
Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 16, no. 1, 1978, p. 120-123.
- The Tropics and Economic Development. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
ASIN
B000SZR5ZK
- With
William D. Clark.
McNamara's Bank. In:
Foreign Affairs, vol. 60, no. 4, 1982, p. 951-953.
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The Resources of Tropical Africa. In:
Daedalus, vol. 111, no. 2 (Black Africa: A Generation after Independence.), 1982, p. 149-163.
- Economics and the Real World. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
ISBN
978-0-8122-7902-3
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Reviewed by
E. Scott Maynes. In:
Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 23, no. 4, 1985, p. 1786-1788.
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Reviewed by
Paul Streeten. In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 34, no. 1, 1985, p. 173-176.
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Economics as a Social Science: An Approach to Nonautistic Theory. Book description at
The University of Michigan Press.
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Reviewed by
Esther-Mirjam Sent. In:
The Review of Politics, 66, p. 350-352, 2004.
doi:
10.1017/S0034670500037463
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