Address:
Department of Economics
Université de Montréal
3150, rue Jean-Brillant, bureau C-6050-2
C.P. 6128, Succ. centre-ville
Montréal (PQ) H3C 3J7, CANADA
Telephone: 514-731-9039
Fax: 514-343-7221
E-mail: leonard.dudley@umontreal.ca
Biography
Born in Vancouver in 1943, Leonard Dudley studied political science and economics as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. He then took his PhD in economics at Yale University, where he completed a thesis on learning by doing as an explanation of productivity change under Richard R. Nelson in 1970. Since then, at the Université de Montréal, his principle research interest has been technological change. His 1991 book, The Word and the Sword, studied the impact of innovation in information and military technology on the evolution of the state. More recently, in a series of articles, he has examined the theory and empirical evidence of the effects of information technology on economic growth, on political institutions and on international trade. His book on this theme, Information Revolutions in the history of the west, was published in 2008.
Leonard Dudley has been a visiting professor at the Institut d’Étude Politiques in Paris, at the Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany and at the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in Guer, France. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany.
