Irma Adelman, 1930-

Nacida en Cernowitz, Rumanía, en marzo de 1930. Fue educada en Estados Unidos obteniendo todos sus títulos universitarios en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. Ha sido profesora en Berkeley, Stanford, John Hopkins, Northwestern,  Maryland y en Leiden (Holanda). Ha trabajado también para el Banco Mundial.

Sus contribuciones más notables a la economía buscan la aplicación de modelos matemáticos para la planificación del desarrollo. Ha empleado técnicas de análisis de multivariables para estudiar interacciones entre las fuerzas políticas, sociales y económicas en los países en desarrollo.  

Curriculum

• Professor en la Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, 1977-actualidad
• Cleveringa Professor, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1977-actualidad
• Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1971
• Professor, University of Maryland, 1973-78
• Senior Economist, World Bank, 1972
• Professor, Northwestern University, 1966-71
• Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1962-65
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 1960-61
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Mills College, 1959
• Instructor, Lecturer, and Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1956-58.

Página personal

http://are.berkeley.edu/~adelman/

Obras accesibles en Internet

• "Dynamic Properties of the Klein-Goldberger Model", con F.L. Adelman, 1959, Economica
• Theories of Economic Growth and Development, 1961.
• "An Econometric Analysis of Population Growth", 1963, AER
• "Foreign Aid and Economic Development: The case of Greece", con H.B.Chenery, 1966, REStat
• The Theory and Design of Economic Development, 1966.
• Society, Politics and Economic Development: a quantitative approach, con C.T. Morris, 1967.
• Economic Growth and Social Equity in Developing Countries, con C.T. Morris, 1973.
• "Strategies for Equitable Growth", 1974, Challange
• "Development Economics: a reassessment of goals", 1975, AER.
• "Growth, Income Distribution and Equity-Oriented Development Strategies", 1975, World Development
• "Policies for Equitable Growth", con C.T. Morris, y S. Robinson, 1976, World Development
• Income Distribution Policy in Developing Countries: A case- study of Korea, con S. Robinson, 1977.
• "Growth and Impoverishment in the Middle of the 19th Century", con C.T. Morris, 1978, World Development
• Redistribution Before Growth: A strategy for developing countries.  1978.
• "Beyond Export-Led Growth", 1984, World Development
• "A Poverty-Focused Approach to Development Policy", 1986, en Lewis, editor, Development Strategies Reconsidered
• "Confessions of an Incurable Romantic", 1988, BNLQR.
• Comparative Patterns of Economic Development, 1850-1914, 1988