10 Facts About Oded Galor

Oded Galor was born on 1953 and is an Israeli-American economist who is currently Herbert H Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University.

Oded Galor pioneered the exploration of the impact of human evolution, population diversity, and inequality on the process of development over most of human existence.

Oded Galor completed his BA and MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his PhD at Columbia University.

Oded Galor served as a Chilewich Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University, and he is currently the Herbert H Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University.

Oded Galor is an Elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, and an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Oded Galor was recently among the 5 candidates for the Nobel of Frankfurter Allgemeine.

Oded Galor is the founder of unified growth theory, which explores the process of development over the entire course of human history and identifies the historical and prehistorical forces behind the differential transition timing from stagnation to growth and the divergence in income per capita across countries and regions.

Oded Galor has made significant contributions to the understanding of process of development over the entire course of human history and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transition from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of the vast inequality across the globe.

Oded Galor, who founded the field of unified growth theory, identifies the historical and prehistorical forces behind the differential transition timing from stagnation to growth and the emergence of income disparity around the world.

Oded Galor unveils the mechanisms that have trapped the world economy in millennia of near-stagnation but ultimately has induced the remarkable transition to an era of sustained economic growth characterized by vast inequality across countries and regions.