Louis Putterman | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Columbia University (B.A.) Yale University (Ph.D.) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Development economics |
Institutions | Brown University |
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Louis G. Putterman (born 1952) [1] is an American development economist. He is a professor of economics at Brown University. [2]
Putterman received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1976 and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980. He joined the Brown University faculty after his doctoral studies and received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1983. [3] He is a specialist on comparative economic systems and has written extensively on China's economic development. His recent work has focused on using laboratory experiments to analyze long-term development of human capabilities. [4]
Putterman served as president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies in 2000–2001. [1]