Claim: Oded Galor, who completed his MA and PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel's second-oldest university), founded the field of unilateral space theory, which suggests that during most of human existence, technological progress was counterbalanced by population growth and living standards were near subsistence across time and space.
Evidence: Galor completed his BA and MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his PhD at Columbia University. Oded Galor is the founder of unified growth theory that explores the process of development over the entire course of human history and identifies the historical and prehistorical forces behind the differential transition timing from stagnation to growth and the divergence in income per capita across countries and regions