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My Take
What I admire about Xavier Sala-i-Martin is the rare hybrid he embodies: a serious Columbia economist who has also lectured at Yale and Harvard, yet who never abandoned the public square as a television presenter and writer. Economics has a habit of locking itself behind jargon, and scholars who refuse that fate, who translate hard ideas for ordinary people, earn my respect. His King of Spain Prize signals academic weight; his journalism prize signals reach. That combination is unusual and valuable. I suspect he is the kind of teacher who can make a curve or a coefficient feel like a story, and that is a gift worth celebrating.
Overview
Xavier X. Sala i Martín (also Sala-i-Martin in English) is a Catalan economist and professor of economics at Columbia University. In addition to working at Columbia, he has been a professor at Yale University, Harvard University, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Xavier Sala-i-Martin
- Name (Japanese)
- シャビエル・サラ・イ・マルティン
- Reading
- しゃびえる・さら・い・まるてぃん
- Born
- June 17, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Tiger
- Origin
- Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona Province, Spain
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- economist / university teacher / writer / television presenter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Autonomous University of Barcelona
Awards & achievements
- 2004 King of Spain Prize in Economics
- 2003 Premi Godó de Periodisme
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.