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About Mira Wilkins
- Mira Wilkins (born 1 June 1931) is an American economic and business historian and a world authority on the history of American business and foreign direct investment.
- She is Professor Emerita at the Department of Economics, Florida International University. Wilkins received an A.B.
- from Radcliffe College and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1957.
- She has been a pioneer in the field of business history, especially in the field of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises.
- She has been called the "doyen of historians of international business," and has published numerous major studies in this field.
- Her most recent book is a study of the role of multinationals in global electrification authored together with Peter Hertner and William Hausmann and titled Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007.
- She is a past president of the Business History Conference, which awarded her its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
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