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(master's (1969) and doctorate (1972) in economics) , occupation =

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, years_active = , era = , employer = , organization = , agent = , known_for = *Alexander Brody Emeritus Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Eighth President of the

Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (C ...

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who is the Alexander Brody Emeritus Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the eighth President of the

Biography

Metzer completed his undergraduate degree in economics and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1967, and received his master's (1969) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the

. Metzer is an

and a substantial part of his research has been devoted to the economy of

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...

and Israel, and to economic aspects of ethno-nationality and settler societies. Metzer was the Alexander Brody Chair in Economic History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1972 to 2010, Chair of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 2010, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences from 2009 to 2014, and since 2010 has been the Alexander Brody Emeritus Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics. In 2013 Metzer was appointed to serve as the eighth President of the

, replacing Professor

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. He was a Member of the Editorial Board of ''

Explorations in Economic History ''Explorations in Economic History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of quantitative economic history. It follows the quantitative or formal approaches that have been called cliometrics or the new economic history, applied to any place and tim ...

'' from 1994 to 2004, and a Member of the Editorial Board of the ''

Journal of Economic History ''The Journal of Economic History'' is an academic journal of economic history which has been published since 1941. Many of its articles are quantitative, often following the formal approaches that have been called cliometrics or the new econom ...

'' from 1995 to 1998. Metzer was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association from 1998 to 2006. Metzer's salary in 2017 was NIS 90,990 per month.

References

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