Michael Bruno (economist)
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Michael Peter Bruno (
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: מיכאל ברונו) (30 July 193226 December 1996) was an Israeli economist. He was governor of the
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and a former
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.


Biography

Michael Peter Bruno was married to Ofra Hanoch (née Hirshenberg), with whom he had three children, daughter Yael and sons
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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
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, for economics.


Published works

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See also

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List of Israel Prize recipients This is a complete list of recipients of the Israel Prize from the inception of the Prize in 1953 through to 2022. List For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize ...


References


Further reading

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Daniel Maman Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...
and
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. 2011.
The Israeli Central Bank: Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors
', Routledge. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruno, Michael 1932 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Israeli economists Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Econometric Society Harvard University staff Hebrew Reali School alumni Israel Prize in economics recipients Israeli officials of the United Nations Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Presidents of the Econometric Society Stanford University alumni World Bank Chief Economists