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Richard N. Cooper, Harvard economist and adviser to presidents, dies at 86 By Globe Staff and Wire ReportsUpdated February 3, 2021, 7:29 p.m. Email to a Friend Dr. Cooper served n four presidential administrations.Cooper family With his 1968 book “The Economics of Interdependence” and his other writings of that period, economist Richard N. Cooper promoted cooperation among nations, even when doing so required considerable effort. “The trend toward greater economic interdependence among countries will require substantial changes in their approach to foreign policy in the next de...

In the 1960s, Richard N. Cooper rode his bicycle to work every day at the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C. The first time Cooper attended a meeting with then-President John F. Kennedy ’40, Kennedy stopped the meeting to ask, “Who is that kid?” upon seeing Cooper, according to Harvard Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel, a friend of Cooper’s. Cooper was “always much younger than his age,” Frankel said. Though he may have looked young for his age, Cooper — who taught international economics at Harvard starting in 1981 and served in four...

He wrote extensively on trade, monetary markets, climate change economics and the interdependence of nations in the world economy.