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About Michael Todaro
- Michael Paul Todaro (born May 14, 1942) is an American economist and a pioneer in the field of development economics. Todaro earned a PhD in economics from Yale University in 1968 for a thesis titled The Urban Employment Problem in Less Developed Countries – An Analysis of Demand and Supply. Todaro was Professor of Economics at New York University for eighteen years and Senior Associate at the Population Council for thirty years.
- He lived and taught in Africa for six years.
- He appears in Who's Who in Economics and Economists of the Twentieth Century.he is an actor.
- He is also the author of eight books and more than fifty professional articles.
- In a special February 2011 centenary edition, the American Economic Review selected Todaro’s article “Migration, Unemployment and Development: A 2-Sector Analysis” (with John Harris) as one of the twenty most important articles published by that journal during the first one hundred years of its existence.
- He is the co-author of the widely used textbook, Economic Development, 12th Edition, published in 2014.
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