Robert Zelwin Aliber (born September 19, 1930) is a professor emeritus of International Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago.
Aliber argues that a multinational corporation from hard currency area can borrow at lower rates in a soft currency country than can local firms.
He has been a staff economist at the Commission on Money and Credit (1959–61) and at the Committee for Economic Development (1961–64).
Aliber served as a senior economic advisor at the United States Agency for International Development (1964–65).
[2] He is mentioned in Michael Lewis' book Travels in the New Third World as having predicted the Icelandic financial crisis several years before it happened.