中外名家-莫迪利亚尼

莫迪利亚尼（Franco Modigliani）

Franco Modigliani, 1918-

1985年获奖。

其学历：

1939年罗马大学（university of Rome）（法律）学士

1944年新社会研究学院（new school for social research）（社会科学）硕士

其主要经历

1942年～1944年巴德学院（Bard college）讲师

1943年～1944年1946年～1948年新社会研究学院经济学助理教授

1949年～1950年伊利诺斯大学（university of Illinois）经济学副教授

1950年～1952年伊利诺斯大学经济学教授

1952年～1960年卡内基理工学院（Carnegie institute of technology）经济学与产业管理教授

1960年～1962年西北大学经济学教授

1962年～1970年麻省理工学院经济学与财务教授

1970年～麻省理工学院客座教授

其主要著作有：

Major works of Franco Modigliani

∙"Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money", 1944, Econometrica.

∙"Utility Analysis and the Consumption Function: An interpretation of cross section data", with R. Brumberg, 1954, in Kurihara, editor, Post Keynesian Economics.

∙"The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment", 1958, with M.H. Miller, AER

∙"New Developments on the Oligopoly Front", 1958, AER.

∙"Corporate Income Taxes and the Cost of Capital: A correction", with M.H. Miller, 1963, AER.

∙"The Life Cycle Hypothesis of Saving", with A. Ando, 1963, AER.

∙"The Monetary Mechanism and its Interaction with Real Phenomena", 1963, REStat.

∙"The Pasinetti Paradox in Neoclassical and More General Models", with P. Samuelson, 1966, RES.

∙"Monetary Policy and Consumption", 1971, in Consumer Spending and Monetary Policy.

∙"The Monetarist Controversy or should we forsake stabilization policies", 1977, AER.

∙"Toward an Understanding of the Real Effects and Costs of Inflation", with S.Fischer 1979, WWA.

∙"Life Cycle, Individual Thrift and the Wealth of Nations", 1986, AER.

∙"The Role of Intergeneration Transfers and Life-Cycle Saving in the Accumulation of Wealth", 1988, JEP.

∙The Debate over Stabilization Policies

∙"The Supply of Money and the Control of Nominal Income" with L. Papademos, 1990, in Friedman and Hahn, editors, Handbook of Monetary Economics - intro.

∙The European economic recovery: a need for new policies?

∙Capital Markets : Institutions and Instruments, with Frank J. Fabozzi, 1996

∙"Growth, investments, Public Deficit and Maastricht", 1996, Nobels for the Future

∙"Technological Innovation and Labour Policies ", 1998, Nobels for the Future

∙"Business Expectations and Strategy for the United States of Europe" with H. Askari, 1997, Stategy and Business

∙"A Euro minus the D-Mark" with M. Baldassarri, 1997, Financial Times

∙"Perils of unemployment" with G. LaMalfa, 1998, Financial Times

∙Letter to Financial Times with G. LaMalfa, 1998

∙"La banca che vogliamo" with G. LaMalfa, 1998, Corriere della sera

∙"Il debito italiano? Non fa paura", with G. LaMalfa, 1998, Corriere della sera

∙"Yes to the Euro, but Also to an Investment Plan for Jobs" with G. LaMalfa, 1998, Herald Tribune

∙"A Solution to the Social Security Reform", with M.L. Ceprini and A.S. Muralidhar, 2000

下面是他本人在1987年所作的一篇讲演的节选，也许对我们理解学者的研究心路有一定的积极意义。

准备这篇演讲的过程，带给我颇多乐趣。借着回顾以往，我重新回忆起一些早已忘却的陈年往事，也发现了一些以前未注意的关联之处。当我看到指定的题目：“我成为经济学者的演化之路”时，真有点吓了一跳。既然谈的是个人的“演化”（evolution），就好像必须由低等状态开始，然后交待如何进展到更高的层次。这让我突然想起一件很重要的事：经济学是一门古老的职业。事实上，我想可能是世界上最古老的职业。我知道这样的说法会遭到其他人的非议，不过有一个关于工程师、经济学家及外科医师之间争论的故事，我认为相当有道理。那三个人各自宣称自己的职业历史最悠久，外科医师首先开腔：“还记得，创世纪