Michael D. Bordo


Michael David Bordo is a Canadian and American economist, currently Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the third most influential economic historian worldwide according to the RePEc/IDEAS rankings. He was a student of Milton Friedman and has co-authored numerous books and articles with Anna Schwartz.

Education

Bordo was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1942. After obtaining a B.A. at McGill University in 1963, Bordo completed an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics. He went on to the University of Chicago where he obtained a PhD in 1972, working under the supervision of Milton Friedman.

Career and contribution

From 1981 to 1989, Bordo was Professor of Economics at the University of South Carolina before taking on the role of Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. Bordo is currently Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
He held many visiting positions at universities worldwide as well as central banks and international monetary institutions. He is a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee, an independent group of economists, who provide a monetarist alternative to the views on monetary policy.
He has been and is on the editorial board of numerous academic journals, including the International Journal of Central Banking, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Economic History and Explorations in Economic History. His research focuses mainly on economic and financial history, monetary economics and history of economic thought. He has written extensively on exchange rate regimes such as the Gold Standard and the Bretton Woods system. Another area of expertise is the Great Depression and financial crisis in general. He also researches globalization in historical perspective.

Selected works