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Michael Peter Bruno (Hebrew: מיכאל ברונו) (30 July 1932 – 26 December 1996)^[1] 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.^[1]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.^[2]

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 (2002). Economics of Worldwide Stagflation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-23475-8.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References

Further reading

• 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.