Cowles Foundation Visiting Scholar Robert Dimand Elected to Royal Society of Canada

Robert W. Dimand, a visiting scholar at the Cowles Foundation and professor of economics at Brock University, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Dimand received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1983, where his dissertation advisor was James Tobin, former director of Cowles. His research focuses on the history of economic thought, particularly the development of macroeconomics and the contributions of Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes.

Since 2018, Dimand has been a regular visitor to the Cowles Foundation, where he received a fellowship to research the Foundation's history. Dimand has two books forthcoming on the history of the Cowles Foundation and its predecessor, the Cowles Commission. He has published papers and books on several economists associated with Cowles, including Tobin, Irving Fisher Jacob Marschak, Tjalling Koopmans, Harry Markowitz, and Kenneth Arrow. 

The Royal Society cited Dimand's work documenting the emergence of macroeconomics as a distinct field and his research on women's contributions to economics. With collaborators, he has examined how gender has been conceptualized within the discipline and published research about women's historical participation in economics.

Dimand has authored books on Irving Fisher and James Tobin, and has published extensively on monetary economics, business cycle theory, and the history of game theory.