About Ronald Wintrobe Ronald Wintrobe is professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario. His work is mostly about political and bureaucratic behaviour from an economic point of view, and he is the author of The Political Economy of Dictatorships. Books by Ronald Wintrobe Across Boundaries Essays in Honour of Robert A.Young edited by André Blais, Cristine de Clercy, Anna Lennox Esselment & Ronald Wintrobe