{"id":181,"date":"2009-04-16T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:34:44","slug":"brecher-richard-a","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/people\/brecher-richard-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard A. Brecher"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research fields<\/strong>: international trade, economic growth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expertise<\/strong>:
\n\u2022 trade theory with special emphasis on income distribution, foreign investment, labour migration, bilateral transfers, trade patterns, economic growth, employment, and unemployment
\n\u2022 growth theory in the presence of unemployment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected publications:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Unemployment Effects of Trade with a Low-Wage Country: A Minimum-Wage Model with Sector-Specific Factors” (with Zhihao Yu), Review of International Economics<\/i>, Vol. 29, No. 2 (May 2021), pp. 402-408.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Dynamic Model of Shirking and Unemployment: Private Saving, Public Debt, and Optimal Taxation\u201d (with Zhiqi Chen and Ehsan U. Choudhri), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control<\/em>, Vol. 34, No. 8 (August 2010), pp. 1392\u20131402.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Generalized Theory of Transfers and Welfare: Bilateral Transfers in a Multilateral World” (with Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Tatsuo Hatta), American Economic Review<\/em>, Vol. 73, No. 4 (September 1983), pp. 606\u2013618<\/a>; reprinted in Jagdish N. Bhagwati (editor), International Trade: Selected Readings <\/i>(Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press), second edition, <\/i>1987; also reprinted in Bharat Hazari and Yin-Wong Cheung (editors), International Trade: Critical Concepts in Economics <\/i>(Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge), Volume III, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Leontief Paradox, Continued” (with Ehsan U. Choudhri), Journal of Political Economy<\/em>, Vol. 90, No. 4, August 1982, pp. 820-823.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cForeign Ownership and the Theory of Trade and Welfare\u201d (with Jagdish N. Bhagwati), Journal of Political Economy<\/em>, Vol. 89, No. 3 (June 1981), pp. 497\u2013511<\/a>; reprinted in Jagdish N. Bhagwati, International Factor <\/i>Mobility<\/i>, Volume 2 of his Essays in International Economic Theory<\/i>, edited by Robert C. Feenstra (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press), 1983; also reprinted in Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna and Arvind Panagariya (editors), Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential <\/i>Trading Arrangements <\/i>(Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press), 1999; also reprinted in Bharat Hazari and Yin-Wong Cheung (editors), International <\/i>Trade: Critical Concepts in Economics <\/i>(Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge), Volume II, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Tariffs, Foreign Capital and Immiserizing Growth” (with Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro), Journal of International Economics<\/em>, Vol. 7, No. 4, November 1977, pp. 317-322; reprinted in Jagdish N. Bhagwati (editor), International Trade: Selected Readings<\/em> (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press), 1981 and second edition, 1987; also reprinted in Andr\u00e9s Velasco (editor), Trade, Development and the World Economy: Selected Essays of Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro <\/em>(Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell), 1988, pp. 43- 48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMinimum Wage Rates and the Pure Theory of International Trade,\u201d Quarterly Journal of Economics<\/em>, Vol. 88, No. 1 (February 1974), pp. 98\u2013116<\/a>; reprinted in Bharat Hazari and Yin-Wong Cheung (editors), International Trade: Critical Concepts in Economics <\/i>(Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge), Volume III, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35049,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Richard A.","cu_people_last_name":"Brecher","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[320,445,32],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-181","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-emeritus-faculty","cu_people_type-ocgse","cu_people_type-with-fgpa-supervisory-status"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Distinguished Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"richard.brecher@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51581,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/181\/revisions\/51581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}