Robert Barro — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics
Authored the influential 1974 paper 'Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?', introducing Ricardian equivalence
Co-authored the 1971 article 'A General Disequilibrium Model of Income and Employment', which was the most cited article in the American Economic Review for many years
Co-authored the classic textbook 'Money, Employment, and Inflation' in 1976
Ph.D. from Harvard University (1970)
B.S. in physics from California Institute of Technology (1965)

Biography

Robert Joseph Barro is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is recognized as one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, alongside Robert Lucas Jr.

and Thomas J. Sargent. Barro also serves as a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

He earned a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1965 and a Ph.