Professor James Poterba FBA
The economics of taxation and government spending, with a particular focus on policies that affect retirement security and capital formation
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
Current post
Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; President, National Bureau of Economic Research
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Pat Hudson FBA
Processes and causes of industrialisation; the impact of colonialism and imperialism on the metropole; the distribution of income and wealth since the eighteenth century; regional disparities; historical methodology
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie FBA
Economic History (Economics); Western Europe; Central Europe; Eastern Europe
Professor Stefan Dercon FBA
Applied economic analysis studying what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa and South Asia, and how to achieve change
