Michael Bruno (economist)

Michael Bruno
Chief Economist of the World Bank
In office 1993–1996
President	Lewis Preston
Preceded by	Lawrence Summers
Succeeded by	Joseph Stiglitz
Personal details
Born	Michael Peter Bruno (1932-07-30)30 July 1932 Hamburg, Germany
Died	26 December 1996(1996-12-26) (aged 64) Jerusalem, Israel
Education	Hebrew University (BA) King's College, Cambridge (MA) Stanford University (PhD)
Academic career
Field	Macroeconomics
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth J. Arrow
Influences	Don Patinkin

Michael Peter Bruno (Hebrew: מיכאל ברונו) (30 July 1932 – 26 December 1996) was an Israeli economist. He was governor of the Bank of Israel and a former World Bank Chief Economist.

Biography

Michael Peter Bruno was married to Ofra Hanoch (née Hirshenberg), with whom he had three children, daughter Yael and sons Ido and Asa. He died of cancer at home in Jerusalem. He is survived by his second wife Netta (née Ben-Porath).

Awards and recognition

• In 1970, Bruno was appointed the Carl Melchior chair of international economics.
• In 1974, he was awarded the Rothschild Prize for Social Science.
• In 1994, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for economics.

Published works

• Bruno, Michael; Di Tella, Guido; Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley, eds. (1988). Inflation Stabilization: The Experience of Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Mexico. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-02279-6.
• Crisis, Stabilization, and Economic Reform: Therapy by Consensus, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-828663-5
• Bruno, Michael; Sachs, Jeffrey (1985). Economics of Worldwide Stagflation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-23475-8.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

Further reading

• Blaug, Mark, ed. (1986). "BRUNO, Michael". Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700-1986 (2nd ed.). Wheatsheaf Books Limited. p. 127-128 – via Internet Archive.
• Passell, Peter (December 31, 1996). "Michael Bruno, 64, Economist And Israel's Banking Chief". New York Times.
• Silver, Eric; Dalyell, Tam (December 28, 1996). "Obituary: Michael Bruno". The Independent.
• Daniel Maman and Zeev Rosenhek. 2011. The Israeli Central Bank: Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors, Routledge.

External links

• Works by or about Michael Bruno at the Internet Archive