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Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28 1944) is an American classical macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The Research Papers in Economics project ranked him as the 3rd most influential economist in the world as of June 2013 based on his academic contributions. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics alongside Robert Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent.