Jacob Viner was born in 1892 in Montreal. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, where he wrote his dessertation under Frank W. Taussig. He was an international trade theorist who, from 1916 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1946, was an Economics Professor at the University of Chicago. He taught at Princeton University from 1946 to 1960. While he was at the University of Chicago he, along with economist Frank Knight, edited the Journal of Political Economy. "Viner is not considered part of the Chicago school as he was much less sympathetic to free markets than his Chicago school colleagues." Viner is probably best known for his work in "Studies in the Theory of International Trade", where he detailed earlier trade theories and showed the fallacies of Mercantilism. He is also known for the importance he placed on the long-run.
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