#  Biography 

 



[Curriculum Vitae](/file_url/325)

Robert J. Barro is Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.S. in physics from Caltech.

Barro is co-editor of Harvard’s *Quarterly Journal of Economics* and has been President of the Western Economic Association and Vice President of the American Economic Association.

He was a viewpoint columnist for *Business Week* from 1998 to 2006 and a contributing editor of *The Wall Street Journal* from 1991 to 1998. He has written extensively on macroeconomics and economic growth.

Recent research involves rare macroeconomic disasters, corporate tax reform, religion & economy, empirical determinants of economic growth, and economic effects of public debt and budget deficits. Recent books include *The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging* (with Rachel M. McCleary), *Economic Growth* (2nd edition, with Xavier Sala-i-Martin), *Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium*, *Determinants of Economic Growth*, and *Getting It Right: Markets and Choices in a Free Society*.