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Vital signs. Remembering Alberto Alesina, the father of political economy

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Vital signs. Remembering Alberto Alesina, the father of political economyHarvard University

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 political economy. Today, political economy is an important component of economics and political science.”

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