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...past appointments include professorships at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard. Craig Calhoun, president of the council, said he was pleased that Rodrik is the first recipient of the award. “I was delighted by the selection because I think Dani Rodrik is about the most interesting mid-career economist around,” Calhoun said. “Like Hirschman, he is an economist who is able to connect the analysis of market phenomena to broader kinds of social and political phenomena.” Rodrik’s most recent book is “One Economics, Many...
Thirty-seven-year-old Professor of Economics Susan Athey became the first female recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal Friday. The American Economics Association awards the prize biannually to an American economist under age 40 who has made “a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...before: in the early '90s, authorities in Beijing let inflation get out of hand, and a hard landing ensued. In the first quarter of this year, inflation at 2.7% was at its highest level in two years, and money supply in China has been, in the view of some economists, excessive for quite a while now. Is fine-tuning really an option? Or is this freight train now rolling with such momentum that a messy derailment is likely, if not inevitable? Jun Ma, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in Hong Kong, has been one of the more accurate...
...Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair, a U.S.-educated economist, is readying his city for the surge. He has rehabilitated a long-neglected urban canal, allowed expat jazz bands to perform next to 300-year-old temples and supported a public arts district along Hai-An Road where, several years ago, local artists began painting giant murals on the sides of abandoned homes. One eye-popping example, called Blueprint for its rendering of an architectural drawing, spawned an adjacent pub by the same name-one of many in the district that draws late-night sidewalk crowds quaffing Belgian ales...
...Joseph A. Schumpeter were alive on commencement day, he would no doubt be surprised: The sight of Bill Gates speaking from the steps of Memorial Church to a sea of crimson would puzzle the Austrian economist and former Harvard professor. Schumpeter had predicted that entrepreneurs like Gates, though the lifeblood of a market economy, would only find hostility in halls of academia...