Professor gustav ranis biography

He was Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (1995 to 2003), a Carnegie Corporation Scholar (2004 to 2006), Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale (1967 to 1975), Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy at USAID (1965 to 1967), and Director of the Pakistan Institute of.
Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale, died Oct. 15 at age 83.
Gustav Ranis is the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University.

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Ranis, Gustav

RANIS, Gustav. American (born Germany), b. 1929. Genres: Economics. Career: Trustee, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Assistant Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1965-67; Yale University, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, and Director of the Economic Growth Center, 1967-75, 1992-93, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1996-. Publications: (with J. Fei) Development of the Labor Surplus Economy, 1964; The Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations, 1972; (with J. Fei and S. Kuo) Growth with Equity: The Taiwan Case, 1979; (co-author) The Taiwan Success Story: Rapid Growth with Improved Distribution in the Republic of China 1952-1979, 1981; Comparative Technology Choice: The Indian and Japanese Cotton Textile Industries, 1988; (with S.A. Mahmood) The Political Economy of Development Policy Change, 1992; Growth and Development from an Evolutionary Perspective, 1997. EDITOR/CO-EDITOR: The U.S. and the Developing Economies, 1964; The Go

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Ranis remembered for his direction, devotion

Gustav Ranis ’52, H’82

By David NathanOct. 17, 2013

Dedicated alumni leader Gustav Ranis ’52, H’82, who was the valedictorian of the university’s inaugural graduating class and achieved a series of other “firsts” during his 65 years as a Brandeisian, died Oct. 15. The professor emeritus of international economics at Yale University was 83.  

In addition to graduating atop Brandeis’ Class of 1952, Ranis was also the first alumnus to earn a PhD, be elected to Phi Beta Kappa and join the Board of Trustees. In recognition of his work as a renowned economist and his dedication to his alma mater, Ranis received an honorary degree from Brandeis in 1982 and won the Alumni Achievement Award 10 years later (he accepted the alumni award again in 2012 when his entire class was honored).

  “We will miss his voice, his energy and his endless devotion to Brandeis,” Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence said.  

Born in Darmstadt, Germany, Ranis left his native c

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Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale, died Oct. 15 at age 83.

Ranis was former director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS — now the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies) and of the Economic Growth Center.

A leading development economist, Ranis has more than 20 books and 300 articles on theoretical and policy-related issues of development to his credit. He is the author of “Development of the Labor Surplus Economy,” “En Route to Modern Economic Growth: Latin America in the 1990s,” “Growth and Development from an Evolutionary Perspective,” and “Japan and the U.S. in the Developing World.”

He was born in Darmstadt, Germany to Max and Bettina Ranis. He left his native land for Cuba in October 1941, traveling with his mother and younger brother, Peter, as the borders closed behind them. In 1952 Ranis was valedictorian of Brandeis University’s first graduating class, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale (1956) in economics. He was awarded an L.H.D. from Bran