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...Times reprints his pompous sketch of diminished "cosmic distinction" Barro could expect at Columbia. Oops...
...story of how Robert J. Barro was won from Cambridge to New York is more reminiscent of the Red Sox and Yankees than the calm heads of Ivy League academe...
...Barro, currently Waggoner professor of economics, earlier this week accepted tenure at Columbia University--supposedly lured by a package more suited to a sports star than an academic luminary...
Columbia officials and Barro himself refused to confirm the account of deal published in Wednesday's New York Times,or to comment on the exact terms of the contract.Richard Clarida, chair of Columbia's EconomicsDepartment, would say only that the package wasenough to "encourage [Barro] to think aboutColumbia...
Regardless of its actual terms, the bidding warthat netted Barro this contract still seems anominous precedent even for the world's richestUniversity, which has not lost a senior economicsFaculty member since...