- Alesina was one of the most creative economists of his time Guido Tabellini, Il Foglio
- Alberto Alesina. A free-spirited economist Papaioannou & Stantcheva, VOXEU
- “Nation-Building, Nationalism, and Wars” Alesina, Reich, & Riboni, NBER
- The case against Mars Byron Williston, Boston Review
“The Case Against Mars”: Had this viewpoint ruled earlier, would the earth be settled now? Nor is planetary demise in millions of years a valid guarantee; multiple possibilities with multiple timelines exist. And if someone does ultimately lift off, our critic needn’t go, right?