{{Infobox economist | name = Gustav Ranis | native_name = | native_name_lang = | school_tradition = | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|10|24|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|10|15|1929|10|24|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | institution = [[Yale University]] | field = | alma_mater = [[Brandeis University]] | influences = | influenced = | contributions = | awards = | memorials = | spouse = Ray Lee | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | module = | repec_prefix = | repec_id = }}
'''Gustav Ranis''' (24 October 1929<ref name=Congress_1>{{cite web |title= Ranis, Gustav |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81082003.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 19 July 2014 |quote= CIP data sheet (b. 10-24-29) }}</ref> – 15 October 2013<ref name=Congress_2>{{cite web |title= Ranis, Gustav |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81082003.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 19 July 2014 |quote= Gustav Ranis; d. Oct. 15, 2013 }}</ref>) was a leading development economist and the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at [[Yale University]].
==Career== {{Development economics sidebar}} He was a part of the first ever graduating class at Brandeis University in 1952. He was Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (1995 to 2003), a Carnegie Corporation Scholar (2004 to 2006), Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale (1967 to 1975), Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy at USAID (1965 to 1967), and Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (1958 to 1961).<ref>Gustav Ranis, Gary R. Saxonhouse, T. N. Srinivasan (1999) Development, duality, and the international economic regime: essays in honor of Gustav Ranis, University of Michigan Press, {{ISBN|0-472-10982-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-472-10982-1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title=Gustav Ranis - Curriculum Vitae | url=http://www.econ.yale.edu/~granis/cv.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513191949/http://www.econ.yale.edu/~granis/cv.pdf | archive-date=2008-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.econ.yale.edu/~granis/bio.htm | title=Gustav Ranis}}</ref>
==Academic output== Ranis first made his name with the 1964 book "Development of the Labor Surplus Economy: Theory and Policy," (an extension and formalisation of the Lewis model)which he coauthored with John Fei and which has been credited with opening up new literature and debate in the development field.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/ybc/v25.n5.obit.01.html |title=Yale Bulletin & Calendar - Obituary |access-date=2009-12-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419071001/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/ybc/v25.n5.obit.01.html |archive-date=2009-04-19 }} Yale Obituary: John Fei</ref> He has written over 20 books and 300 theoretical and policy-oriented development economics articles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/ranis.htm |title=Gustav Ranis |access-date=2009-12-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124092149/http://www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/ranis.htm |archive-date=2010-01-24 }} Ranis's Homepage at Yale</ref>
== Personal life == Ranis is survived by his wife of 55 years, Rachel Ranis; his children, Michael and Jonathan Ranis and Bettina Altschuler; and his grandchildren, Benjamin and Daniel Altschuler, Hanna and Sasha Ranis.
== Selected bibliography == === Books === * {{cite book | last1 = Ranis | first1 = Gustav | last2 = Stewart | first2 = Frances | last3 = Angeles-Reves | first3 = Edna | author-link2 = Frances Stewart (economist) | title = Linkages in developing economies: a Philippine study | publisher = International Center for Economic Growth ICS Press distributor | location = San Francisco, California | year = 1990 | isbn = 9781558150492 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Ranis | first1 = Gustav | last2 = Hu | first2 = Sheng-Cheng | last3 = Chu | first3 = Yun-Peng | title = The political economy of Taiwan's development into the 21st century | publisher = Northampton, Massachusetts Elgar | location = Cheltenham, UK | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781858988795 }}
=== Journal articles === * {{Cite journal | last1 = Ranis | first1 = Gustav | last2 = Stewart | first2 = Frances| last3 = Ramirez | first3 = Alejandro | author-link2 = Frances Stewart (economist) | title = Economic growth and human development | journal = World Development | volume = 28 | issue = 2 | pages = 197–219 | doi = 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00131-X | date = February 2000 | url = http://workingpapers.qeh.ox.ac.uk/RePEc/qeh/qehwps/qehwps18.pdf }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Festschrift== Gustav Ranis, Gary R. Saxonhouse, T. N. Srinivasan (1999) Development, duality, and the international economic regime: essays in honor of Gustav Ranis, University of Michigan Press, {{ISBN|0-472-10982-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-472-10982-1}}
==External links== * [http://economics.yale.edu/news/memoriam-gustav-ranis-international-expert-development-economics Ranis's In Memoriam page at Yale]
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