Louis Putterman

Louis G. Putterman (born 1952)^[1] is an American development economist. He is a professor of economics at Brown University.^[2]

Louis Putterman
Academic background
Alma mater	Columbia University (B.A.) Yale University (Ph.D.)
Academic work
Discipline	Development economics
Institutions	Brown University
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Biography

Putterman received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1976 and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980. He joined the Brown University faculty after his doctoral studies and received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1983.^[3] He is a specialist on comparative economic systems and has written extensively on China's economic development. His recent work has focused on using laboratory experiments to analyze long-term development of human capabilities.^[4]

Putterman served as president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies in 2000–2001.^[1]