Alberto Alesina
Italian economist (1957–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alberto Francesco Alesina (29 April 1957 – 23 May 2020) was an Italian economist who was the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University from 2003 until his death in 2020.[3] He was known principally as an economist of politics and culture, and was famed for his usage of economic tools to study social and political issues.[4][5] He was described as having “almost single-handedly” established the modern field of political economy, and as a likely contender for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[4][6][7]
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Alberto Alesina | |
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Born | (1957-04-29)29 April 1957 |
Died | 23 May 2020(2020-05-23) (aged 63) |
Academic career | |
Institution | Harvard University |
Field | Macroeconomics Political economy |
Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD) Bocconi University (Laurea) |
Doctoral advisor | Jeffrey Sachs[1] |
Doctoral students | Silvana Tenreyro[2] |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
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