Michael David Bordo (born 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian and American economist, currently Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University.[1] He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.[2] He is the third most influential economic historian worldwide according to the RePEc/IDEAS rankings.[3] He was a student of Milton Friedman and has co-authored numerous books and articles with Anna Schwartz.