# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurence-kotlikoff
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:12:32.112Z

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name: "Laurence Kotlikoff"
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description: "Laurence Jacob Kotlikoff is an American economist who has served as a professor of economics at Boston University since 1984. A specialist in macroeconomics and public finance, he has contributed to a range of fields, including climate change and carbon taxation, the global macroeconomic transition and the future of economic power, inequality, fiscal progressivity, economic guides to personal financial behavior, banking reform, marginal taxation and labor supply, healthcare reform, and social security. He is the author of over 20 books, and his scholarly articles have been published in a range of journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. In 2014, The Economist ranked Kotlikoff as the 19th most influential economist in the world."
tagline: "American economist"
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birthDate: "1951-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump