# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alberto-alesina
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:38:59.870Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/alberto-alesina"
name: "Alberto Alesina"
slug: "alberto-alesina"
description: "Alberto Francesco Alesina was an Italian economist who was the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University from 2003 until his death in 2020. 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. 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."
tagline: "Economist (1957–2020)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1957-04-29"
deathDate: "2020-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump