Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Franco Modigliani
Born: June 18, 1918
Died: September 25, 2003 (aged 85)
Bio: Franco Modigliani was an Italian economist naturalized American, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.
Known for:
- Rethinking pension reform
- Adventures of an Economist (2001)
- The Debate Over Stabilization Policy (1986)