Andrea Maneschi has taught at Vanderbilt University since 1970. He obtained the B.A. degree in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, England, in 1958, and the Ph.D. degree in Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) in 1964. After spending three years at Yale University, he was Ford Foundation Visiting Research Professor of Economics at the University of S?o Paulo, Brazil, from 1967 to 1970. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Milan, Italy, and the University of Sydney, Australia.

Before assuming his current position as Director of the Graduate Program in Economic Development in the Fall of 2005, Professor Maneschi was Acting Director of the GPED in 1991-92 and Fall 1997, and over the years has taught several courses to GPED students, including Macroeconomic Theory, Project Evaluation, and International Trade and Economic Development. His research interests span the theory of international trade, the history of economic thought, and economic development. His articles have appeared in Journal of International Economics , Review of International Economics , Oxford Economic Papers , Cambridge Journal of Economics , and in journals that specialize in the history of economic thought. In 1998 he published Comparative Advantage in International Trade: A Historical Perspective (Edward Elgar), where he reviewed the history and current status of comparative advantage, one of the most important concepts in economic theory and policy.

The Graduate Program in Economic Development (GPED) celebrated an important anniversary in the Fall of 2006: its fiftieth after its founding in 1956. Professor Maneschi was delighted with the support received from the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt, the Department of Economics, and the Graduate Program in Economic Development that allowed us to hold a well-attended conference in November 2006 on “Globalization and the Developing Countries”. This conference was attended by the past directors of the GPED, by over fifty of the GPED’s own alumni, some of whom have attained distinction in the economics profession and in national and international organizations, by the current GPED students and other guests. Papers on the theme of the conference were presented by ten GPED alumni, several Vanderbilt faculty members, and well-known economists from the U.S. and overseas.

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