John Williamson (9) (1949–)
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John Williamson, Senior Fellow since 1981, was on leave as Chief Economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996-99; Economics professor at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (1978-81), University of Warwick (1970-77), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1967, 1980), vis mere University of York (1963-68), and Princeton University (1962-63); Adviser to the International Monetary Fund (1972-74); & Economic Consultant to the UK Treasury (1968-70). He is author or editor of numerous studies on international monetary & developing world debt issues, including The Crawling Band as an Exchange Rate Regime (1996), What Role for Currency Boards? (1995), Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates (1994), The Political Economy of Policy Reform (1993), Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened? (1990) & Targets & Indicators: A Blueprint for the International Coordination of Economic Policy with Marcus Miller (1987). (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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There are a couple of genuinely interesting chapters on the symphonies, albeit somewhat peripheral to any central analysis: Benjamin M Korstvedt does a good job of untangling the textual scholar’s dream or nightmare of the editions of the symphonies (although it peters out a bit once the Haas Gesamtausgabe narrative is done) and Williamson himself is enlightening on conductors and recordings (particularly pioneering ones), although he does overdo the aging conductor and ‘monumentalism’ trope and there is more to the analysis of recordings than taking the easy route of comparing timings.
A very mixed volume then and absolutely not one I could recommend to someone just familiarising themselves with Bruckner.… (mere)