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...private donations. It is hard to argue that those additional funds for Harvard were effective on the margin. Harvard has a vested interest in keeping its student body small, since what it produces is essentially a luxury good in the form of Harvard diplomas. As one commenter on DeLong??s article pointed out, “the rationale for Harvard is not the education of young people. It is to produce a certain class of educated person who will go on to fill a certain role in society.” The University shouldn?...
Shleifer and DeLong??s freshman year roommate, Joseph Evall ’82, both say that DeLong was primed for Harvard, and that his reading ability left them...
Even though DeLong would eventually choose social studies as his major, he joined Shleifer in Math 55—a class the math department still calls “probably the most difficult undergraduate math class in the country.” DeLong??s secondary preparation came through for him again, and he credits this with impressing Shleifer favorably enough that they have continued to collaborate over the years...
...work in economic history, on his thesis, which examined the industrial revolution through the lens of classical economic theory. Shleifer and DeLong would actually write one paper on a similar topic—the growth of cities before the industrial revolution—which Shleifer credits to DeLong??s interest in and knowledge of history...
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