Michael Hiscox

 

Michael Hiscox

Professor of Government
 
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CGIS N208
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office Hours: By appointment.

Biographical Note:

Michael J. Hiscox is Professor in the Department of Government. He specializes in international political economy, and most of his research and teaching is focused on the political economy of trade, investment, and immigration. Hiscox received his B. Econ. (Hon.) from the University of Sydney in 1989, and received his PhD. (Government) from Harvard in 1997. He was Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSD from 1997 to 2001. His first book, International Trade and Political Conflict, was published by Princeton University Press in 2001 and won the William H. Riker Prize in 2002. Hiscox has published articles in leading scholarly journals on international trade, investment, immigration, industrialization, and globalization. His second book, High Stakes: The Political Economy of US Trade Sanctions, will be published next year. His recent papers have addressed questions concerning factor mobility and structural adjustment within economies, trade adjustment assistance policies, the measurement of barriers to trade, determinants of foreign investment flows, the size of nations, and public attitudes toward international trade and immigration.