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Mira Wilkins Professor Telephone: (305) 348 - 3352 Email:
wilkinsm PhD: Cambridge University, 1957. Joined the faculty in 1974. Fields: Economic and business history, history of foreign investment in the United States. |
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Mira Wilkins is an economic and business historian. Her expertise is on the history of foreign investment, particularly on the history of multinational enterprise. She is the author of four Harvard University Press books: The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914 (1970), The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970 (1974), The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914 (1989), and The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 (2004). In addition, she has published other books and numerous scholarly articles. Her works are widely cited. |
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| She is a past president of the Business History Conference and a fellow of the Academy of International Business. She is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, FIU's Outstanding University Professor Award, and the Business History Conference's Lifetime Achievement Award. | |
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Selected Publications |
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| The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2004). | |
| Multinational Corporations, in Joel Mokyr, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 5 vols., New York: Oxford University Press, IV, pp. 13-16, (2003). | |
| Conduits for Long-term Foreign Investment in the Gold Standard Era, in Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, and Harold James, eds., International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chap. 2, pp. 51-76, (2003) | |
| The History of Multinational Enterprise, in Alan M. Rugman and Thomas L. Brewer, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Business, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chap. 1, pp. 3-35, (2001, paperback edition, 2003). | |
| German Chemical Firms in the United States from the late 19th Century to Post-World War II, in John E. Lesch, The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 285-321, (2000). | |
| Two Literatures, Two Story-Lines: Is a General Paradigm of Foreign Portfolio and Foreign Direct Investment Feasible?, Transnational Corporations, 8(1):53-116, (1999). | |
| Cosmopolitan Finance in the 1920s: New York's Emergence as a Financial Centre, in Richard Sylla, Richard Tilly, and G. Tortella, eds., The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 271-291, (1999). | |
| Multinational Enterprises and Economic Change, Australian Economic History Review, 38(2):103-134, (1998). | |
| Comparative Hosts, Business History, 36(1):18-50, (1994). | |
| The Neglected Intangible Asset: The Influence of the Trade Mark on the Rise of the Modern Corporation, Business History, 34(1):66-95, (1992). | |
| The Growth of Multinational Enterprise, (editor and contributor), Edward Elgar Publishing, (1991). | |
| The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1989). | |
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