Robert Loring Allen Memorial Scholarship
Dr. Robert Loring Allen is a late Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri. His career as a professor of international economics and economic history spanned over 45 years. He was born in 1921 and served in WWII, where he was wounded. He then went on to complete a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard. He worked as an economist for the Central Intelligence Agency (1951-1956) and as a professor at the Universities of Virginia and Oregon prior to arriving at UMSL in 1968.
Dr. Allen was a prolific writer and scholar. While at the CIA he authored the quintessential book on the viability of “economic warfare,” with particular emphasis on the Soviet Union. While at UMSL his work focused on economic development and, in particular, on Venezuela and the role of oil and OPEC in economic development.