Michael Mussa | |
Office: | Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund |
President: | Michel Camdessus Horst Köhler |
Term Start: | August 1991 |
Term End: | June 29, 2001 |
Predecessor: | Jacob A. Frenkel |
Successor: | Kenneth Rogoff |
Birth Date: | 15 April 1944 |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Death Place: | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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Michael Louis Mussa (April 15, 1944 – January 15, 2012) was an American economist and academic. He was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 1991 to 2001 and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1988. He was also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2001 until his death in 2012.[1] [2] [3]