What makes a great economist? A willingness to address the toughest questions in political economy, certainly, and provide answers, no matter how unpopular they might be. But playfulness also matters.

Economics professor Alberto Alesina “more or less founded the modern field of political economy,” according to Economics Department Chair Jeremy C. Stein. But as Stein tried to write a tribute to ...

Un infarto ha causato la morte di Alberto Alesina, 63 anni, di Broni (Pavia), fra i i più auterevoli economisti italiani. E' accaduto durante una passeggiata in montagna mentre era insieme alla moglie ...

Alberto Alesina è morto mentre pratica hiking negli Stati Uniti. Fra i suoi lavori più noti si ricorda quello sull'austerità espansiva E’ enorme il contributo di Alberto Alesina alla comunica ...

MILANO - È morto l'economista Alberto Alesina. Aveva 63 anni e insegnava alla Harvard University. Lo ha reso noto in un tweet l'economista David Wessel, direttore del Centro Hutchin sulla politica ...

The world has lost a great economist. Alberto Alesina suddenly passed away from cardiac arrest while on a walk with his wife on May 23. He was 63. A prolific researcher, his voice will be missed in ...

Alberto Alesina of Harvard attends a 2015 Group of Seven meeting of finance ministers in Dresden, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) My friend Alberto Alesina, the Nathaniel Ropes professor of ...

There was — and continues to be — considerable debate about “austerity” during the Great Recession and its aftermath. How much should governments worry about deficits, if at all, during a severe ...

Don Aviv says that without a clear endgame to the US-Israeli war with Iran, Gulf countries will chart their own course. At first glance, reports that the US and Chinese governments are both ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Want to reduce the overall level of income taxes and see more women taking home paychecks? Lower income-tax rates for women while raising them for men, according to Harvard University ...

Alberto Alesina grew up in Italy in the 1970s when coalition governments were lurching from one crisis to the next and collapsing with alarming frequency. What disgusted many of his contemporaries ...

A DECADE AFTER the last global downturn, the economics establishment’s U-turn on austerity is complete. In 2010 the IMF praised Britain’s tough deficit-reduction plan. Now it recommends a big fiscal ...