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Robert Mundell, Nobel winning economist who backed radical tax cutting and was dubbed ‘father of the euro’ – obituary He took pleasure in the idea that his work ‘stepped on a lot of intellectual toes‘, while it was said of him: ‘Bob is seldom wrong’ 12 April 2021 • 6:52pm Mundell: he argued that the project also needed the backing of ‘a strong central state’ Credit: Beth Keiser/Corbis via Getty  Robert Mundell, who has died aged 88, was a Canadian-born Nobel laureate economist whose work on “optimum currency areas” earned him the label of “father of the euro”. Sof...

Author of the article: Peter Hendra Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  5 minute read An April 1989 file photo of Robert Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Prize winner for economic sciences, in Kingston. Photo by Michael Lea /The Whig-Standard file photo Article content Robert Mundell — the Kingston-born economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1999 and was called “the godfather of the Euro” — died Sunday in Italy at age 88. Mundell, a longtime professor at New York’s Columbia University, won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on currency exchange rates. We apolo...

ALASTAIR GRANT/The Associated Press Robert A. Mundell, a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose theorizing opened the door to understanding the workings of global finance and the modern-day international economy, while his more iconoclastic views on economic policy fostered the creation of the euro and the adoption of the tax-cutting approach known as supply-side economics, died Sunday at his home, a Renaissance-era palazzo that he and his wife restored, near Siena, Italy. He was 88. The cause was cholangiocarcinoma, cancer of the bile duct, said his wife, Valerie Natsios-Mundell. Mr. Mundell, a...

Article content Robert Mundell, the Nobel Prize-winner and supply-side economist who was considered the intellectual father of the euro, has died. He was 88. His death was confirmed by Sophia Johnson, assistant director of the program for economic research at Columbia University, where Mundell was professor emeritus. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Robert Mundell, Canadian-born Nobel laureate who inspired the euro, dies at 88 Back to video A Columbia University professor of economics, Mundell won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1999 for his t...