Dimand Robert, Professor of Economics, Brock University
Robert Dimand
Professor of Economics, Brock University
Adjunct and Associate Members
Department of Economics
Biography
Research Interests:
Development of Macro before 1936, History of Game Theory, History of Women in Economics, Origins of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Education
PhD, Yale University 1983
Teaching
Econ 716- Winter 2016
Research
Recent Publications
Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh and Robert W. Dimand, "A Simpler Proof of the Von Neumann Minimac Theorem," American Mathematical Monthly, forthcoming (accepted October 2010).
Robert W. Dimand, "Tobin as an Econometrician," in Marcel J. Boumans, Arianne Dupont-Kiefer, and Mary S. Morgan, eds., The History of Econometrics, Annual Supplement to History of Political Economy, Volume 41 (2011), forthcoming.
Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh and Robert W. Dimand, “Von Neumann, Ville, and the Minimax Theorem,” International Game Theory Review, Vol. 12, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 115-137
Robert W. Dimand, Robert A. Mundell, and Alessandro Vercelli, eds., Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years, London and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan for the International Economic Association, 2010 (proceedings of IEA conference, Siena, 2006). Includes Chapter 15: “What Keynesian Revolution?” by Robert W. Dimand.
Robert W. Dimand, “Monetary economics, history of,” in Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds., The New Palgrave Monetary Economics, London, Basingstoke, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 189-204.
Robert W. Dimand, “Tobin’s Keynesianism,” in Bradley Bateman, Toshiaki Hirai, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, eds., The Return to Keynes, Cambridge: MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, pp. 94-107.
Robert W. Dimand and Barbara J. Spencer, “Trevor Swan and the Neoclassical Growth Model,” in Mauro Boianovsky and Kevin D. Hoover, eds., Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics, Annual Supplement to Volume 41 of History of Political Economy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009, pp. 107-126.
Robert W. Dimand and Steven N. Durlauf, “James Tobin and Growth Theory: Financial Factors and Long-Run Growth,” in Mauro Boianovsky and Kevin D. Hoover, eds., Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics, Annual Supplement to Volume 41 of History of Political Economy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009, pp. 182-199.
Ann-Mari May and Robert W. Dimand, “Retrospectives: Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Cross/Eaves Controversy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 23, No. 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 189-204.