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Caves, Richard E.

Richard E. Caves
Born 1931 (age 85–86)
Nationality  United States
Institution Harvard University
Field Motion picture economics
Doctoral
advisor
Gottfried Haberler
Doctoral
students
Michael Porter
Elhanan Helpman

Richard Earl Caves (born 1 November 1931, Akron, Ohio) is an American economist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is known for his work on Multinational enterprises, on industrial organization, and on the creative industries. He is known within the motion pictures economics field as the author of a definitive book on the organization of the creative industries titled, Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce.

Caves obtained his BA in economics at Oberlin College in 1953. He continued his studies at Harvard University, where he obtained his MA in economics in 1956, and his PhD in 1958.

In 1957, Caves started his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Joe S. Bain. In 1962 he moved back to Harvard University, where he was appointed Professor of Economics and lectured in industrial organization and international trade. He served as Department Chairman from 1966 to 1969 and Chairman of the Ph.D in Business Economics from 1984 to 1997, and was also the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration from 1986 to 1997, and subsequently the Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of Political Economy, from 1997 on. He retired at Harvard in 2003, and became Emeritus Professor of Economics. He also sat on the editorial board of the Review of Economics and Statistics from 1992 to 1996.

Caves has acted as a Consultant on various topics to various bodies. He was an adviser on international monetary problems for the US Council of Economic Advisers in 1961, and deputy to the Special Assistant to the President on foreign trade policy in the same year. From 1963-4 he was a member of the Review Committee for Balance of Payments Statistics at the US Bureau of the Budget, (also known as the Bernstein Committee). In 1964 he was also a member of the White House Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy. From 1972-3 he acted as a consultant to the Council of Ontario Universities, and from 1975-6 he was a consultant to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration.


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