Mundell, Robert


MUNDELL, Robert, Nobel prize-winning economist (b 1932, Kingston, ON). He won the 1999 Nobel Prize for economics for work he did in the 1960s on exchange rates and international trade. A prophet of globalization, he expressed ideas that influenced the development of common currency in Europe (the "euro") and underpinned the supply-side economic policies of US President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. As a teenager Mundell moved to BC with his parents and graduated from MAPLE RIDGE High School in...

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