Franco Modigliani (June 18, 1918 - September 25, 2003) was an Italian-American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985. Born in Italy, he left Italy for the US in 1939 because of his Jewish background and antifascist views. In 1944 he obtained his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research working under Jacob Marschak. Wikipedia
Franco Modigliani Autobiography I was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Enrico Modigliani and Olga Flaschel. www.geocities.com/econ_555jim/modigliani-autobio.html
Franco Modigliani 's research has been primarily directed towards household saving and the functioning of financial markets. The achievements for which Professor Modigliani is now to be rewarded concern the construction and development of the life-cycle kilop.atspace.com/modigliani-press.html
The son of a Jewish physician, Modigliani initially studied law but fled Fascist Italy in 1939 for the United States, in which country he became a naturalized citizen in 1946. He studied economics at the New School for Social Research and obtained his do www.nobel-winners.com/Economics/franco_modigliani.html
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