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Gordon Rausser
Dean of the College of Natural Resources

"Saving the Planet (and theInternational Monetary Fund)"

Gordon Rausser, the Dean of the School of Natural Resources, madehis mark in the past few years by helping change two worlds — the world ofenvironmental preservation and the world of economics.

Rausser’s research helped persuade scientists, governmentofficials and corporations to start organizing a “library” of life to helppreserve biodiversity around the globe. This library will have information on whichspecies are most endangered around the world, and then various parties can prioritizetheir biodiversity preservation strategies.

To help stabilize economies and currencies around the globe,Rausser — the former chief economist of the Agency for International Development— stresses the importance of economic freedoms and the removal of governmentalsubsidies. His ideas are so convincing that officials at the International Monetary Fundhave said they would adopt some of his proposals.

A currency devaluation “islike a damn explosion. (Government officials) try to hold back the water. But it justkeeps coming! And it keeps coming! And it keeps coming!
And it bursts! And the damn breaks! And that’s what we’ve seen over the lastyear.”

BOOKS

Economic Growth, Political and Civil Liberties

John C. McMillan, Gordon C. Rausser, Stanley R. Johnson

 

The Emergence of Market Economies in Eastern Europe

Christopher Clague, Gordon C. Rausser (Editor)

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