Michael Bruno
| Michael Bruno | |
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| Born |
30 July 1932 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 25 December 1996 (aged 64) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality |
 Israel
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| Field | Macroeconomics |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University King's College, Cambridge Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Doctoral advisor |
Kenneth J. Arrow |
| Influences | Don Patinkin |
Michael Peter Bruno (Hebrew: מיכאל ברונו) (born 30 July 1932; died 25 December 1996) was an Israeli economist. He was a governor of Israel's central bank and a former World Bank Chief Economist.
Michael Peter Bruno was born 30 July 1932 in Hamburg, Germany. His German-Jewish family emigrated to Mandate Palestine the following year upon Hitler's rise to power, and settled in the northern town of Haifa. His father Hans was a doctor, and his mother Lotte, a pianist. Bruno inherited his father's dedication to the sciences, his mother's love of music, and their joint passion for nature and travel. His parents brought their European and cosmopolitan sensibilities with them to Palestine, wishing to some degree to preserve a certain way of life, but the family's early years were faced with difficulties. Palestine was awash with doctors (mostly recent immigrants too) and for several years Hans Bruno earned a living as a car mechanic. When World War II broke, Hans Bruno found that his skills would be better put to use in North Africa, and he joined the British Army and served as a medical officer in Alexandria, Egypt.
During the later struggle for independence from the British Mandate, the family was expelled from their home and relocated to a more hostile part of town, and Michael Bruno had to be taken to school in an armoured school vehicle. Some of these difficulties soon lessened following the declaration of independence of the state of Israel.
After the completion of his military service In 1952, Bruno began studying Mathematics and Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in 1954, on the recommendation of Don Patinkin, Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bruno came to England to read Mathematics and Economics at King's College, Cambridge, after which he travelled to California to complete a doctorate at Stanford University. He completed his thesis in 1963, titled Interdependence, resource use, and structural change in Israel.
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