Michael Bruno (economist)
Israeli economist
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Michael Peter Bruno (Hebrew: מיכאל ברונו; 30 July 1932 – 26 December 1996)[1] was an Israeli economist. He was governor of the Bank of Israel and a former World Bank Chief Economist.
PresidentLewis Preston
Preceded byLawrence Summers
Succeeded byJoseph Stiglitz
BornMichael Peter Bruno
30 July 1932
30 July 1932
Hamburg, Germany
Michael Bruno | |
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מיכאל ברונו | |
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| Chief Economist of the World Bank | |
| In office 1993–1996 | |
| President | Lewis Preston |
| Preceded by | Lawrence Summers |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Stiglitz |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Michael Peter Bruno 30 July 1932 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 26 December 1996 (aged 64) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Education | Hebrew University (BA) King's College, Cambridge (MA) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Kenneth J. Arrow | |
| Influences | Don Patinkin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
Biography
Awards and recognition
- In 1970, Bruno was appointed the Carl Melchior chair of international economics.
- In 1974, he was awarded the Rothschild Prize for Social Science.
- In 1994, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for economics.[2]
Published works
- Bruno, Michael; Di Tella, Guido; Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley, eds. (1988). Inflation Stabilization: The Experience of Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Mexico. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02279-6.
- Crisis, Stabilization, and Economic Reform: Therapy by Consensus, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-828663-5
- Bruno, Michael; Sachs, Jeffrey (1985). Economics of Worldwide Stagflation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-23475-8.