What makes a great economist? A willingness to address the toughest questions in political economy, certainly, and provide answers, no matter how unpopular they might be. But playfulness also matters.
Alberto Alesina of Harvard attends a 2015 Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers in Dresden, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) My friend Alberto Alesina, the Nathaniel Ropes professor of ...
The world has lost a great economist. Alberto Alesina suddenly passed away from cardiac arrest while on a walk with his wife on May 23. He was 63. A prolific researcher, he will be missed in the ...
Economics professor Alberto Alesina “more or less founded the modern field of political economy,” according to Economics Department Chair Jeremy C. Stein. But as Stein tried to write a tribute to ...
The world has lost a great economist. Alberto Alesina suddenly passed away from cardiac arrest while on a walk with his wife on May 23. He was 63. A prolific researcher, his voice will be missed in ...
The world has lost a great economist. Alberto Alesina suddenly passed away from cardiac arrest while on a walk with his wife on May 23. He was 63. A prolific researcher, his voice will be missed in ...
A decade ago, Alberto Alesina was one of the most influential economists in the world. His theory of “expansionary austerity”—the paradoxical notion that reducing public expenditure would lead to an ...
Harvard University’s Alberto Alesina died suddenly of a heart attack on May 23. He was 63. His long-time colleague and friend Larry Summers wrote that before him, “there was no academic field of ...
Alberto Alesina was my brilliant and creative colleague at Harvard. He hired me from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in 2005 and I recall him telling me to ask for a better ...
Austerity: When It Works and When it Doesn’t, by Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi (Princeton University Press, 296 pp., $35) No one would call Austerity a “fun” book—economics ...
Alberto Alesina grew up in Italy in the 1970s when coalition governments were lurching from one crisis to the next and collapsing with alarming frequency. What disgusted many of his contemporaries ...
The world has lost a great economist. Alberto Alesina suddenly passed away from cardiac arrest while on a walk with his wife on May 23. He was 63. A prolific researcher, his voice will be missed in ...
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