Vital signs. Remembering Alberto Alesina, the father of political economy
- Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Harvard UniversityHarvard 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 political economy. Today, political economy is an important component of economics and political science.”
That is...
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