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Former Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 is one of the most prominent economists in the world, with the most citations of any economist, according to one measure. But his career was tainted when he and various acquaintances, as well as Harvard, were sued under the False Claims Act for buying Russian stocks and short-term state bonds in violation of Harvard’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development. In 2005, a settlement was reached between the government and the defendant parties, with Harvard and Shleifer paying millions...
Also during the public comment part of the meeting, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen spoke out in opposition to his neighbor’s petition for a curb cut to expand a driveway...
...Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus began making tiny loans to the rural poor. The success of his charity led him to found Grameen Bank, pioneering microcredit. Yunus spoke to TIME's Ishaan Tharoor last week, moments before learning he and Grameen had won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize...
Andrei Shleifer ’82, the prominent Harvard economist who found himself at the center of a rare ethics investigation for his alleged role in defrauding the U.S. government, has been stripped of his endowed title as the Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Economics.Beginning on Friday, Shleifer was listed in the Harvard directory as a “Professor of Economics” at Harvard, a step down from the more prestigious, endowed Jones post.“I was a professor of economics at Harvard last week, and I am a professor of economics at Harvard this week...
...ethics inquiry had centered on allegations that the economist violated Harvard conflict-of-interest rules by making private investments in the Russian economy while advising a federally funded and Harvard-run aid program in the country...