Although Canada may not very well-known, we have found that there are more important people that what we previously thought.

The following are some of the most important ones in different aspects of life.

This task has been done by Óscar Plumariega, Alexis A. Gómez, Verónica Ramos and Óscar Gutiérrez.

ECONOMISTS

●     Robert Alexander Mundell 
Robert Alexander Mundell, is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist. Mundell is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He was born in Kingston, Canada. He studied at the British Columbia University. He attended MIT in USA and then the London School of Economics, where he completed his education. In 1956 he received a doctorate at MIT, where he presented his thesis about international money movements.
He taught in Columbia University and in the School of Advanced International Studies, in both places as economist.
In  2005 he received the “Global Economist” award from the Institute of World Economics in Kiel, Germany.


His work on optimum currency areas is considered the basic framework in which The Euro area was built. The basic idea of his thesis is: “Any particular region inside a currency area, if you want to maintain a level of employ, real salaries should be reduced or should promove the mobility of the labor factor”