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Robert Barro

American classical macroeconomist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1944 · age 82

Robert Joseph Barro is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent.

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Awards

Clarivate Citation Laureates2002
Fellow of the Econometric Society1980
Guggenheim Fellowship
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-editor of the influential Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Country
United States
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Academics
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Academic
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Dates
Born 1944 · age 82

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