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Rudi Dornbusch (Rüdiger Dornbusch, June 8, 1942 -
July 25 2002) was a Germany|German
Economics|economist born in Krefeld.

He spent the majority of his career teaching at
the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT
Department of Economics. Earlier in his career, he
taught at University of Rochester and the
University of Chicago. He studied at University of
Geneva and received his Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago in 1971. 

His talent was to extract the heart of a problem
and make it understandable in simple terms. For
example, he explained fluctuations in prices and
exchange rates with great clarity. His textbook on
macroeconomics with Stanley Fischer was a key work
for economics undergraduates.

He died, aged sixty, from cancer.

== Works ==
* Open Economy Macroeconomics.
* Macroeconomics Populism. 1990