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Clopper Almon
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-4604
Email: almon@econ.umd.edu
Clopper Almon, Professor, received his Ph.D.
from Harvard University in 1962. Afterwards he taught at Harvard until
1966 when he joined the faculty at Maryland. His major research interests
have been in the area of interindustry modeling for the purpose of studying
macroeconomic phenomena. In 1967 he founded INFORUM
and
has been its director since then. He served on the Executive Committee
of NBER's Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, was the Coordinator
for Econometric Modeling, US-USSR Exchange Program on Science and Technology
and worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
in Austria. He has also been active in modeling the economy of the state
of Maryland. Recently he has been the principal investigator of a project
on the effects of a free trade agreement with Mexico. Publications include:
Matrix Methods in Economics, Addison-Wesley, 1967; The Craft of Modeling,
Ginn Press, 1988; "The INFORUM Approach to Integrated Modeling," Economics
Systems Research, 1991; "Simulation of a Mexico-USA Free Trade Agreement"
(with A. Ruiz-Moncayo and L. Sangines), Economic Systems Research,
1991.
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