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...Maverick Mogul TIME's Feb. 16, 1968, cover story profiled John Kenneth Galbraith, the influential economist, diplomat and prolific author who died in April...
...CAMBRIDGEAt the same time Wright filed her grievance with the EEOC, Skocpol learned that then-dean of the Faculty, Henry Rosovsky, would assemble an ad hoc committee to investigate her charge. The committee—made up of historian Stanley H. Hoffman, historian of science Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and economist Hendrik S. Houthakker—found, in a 2-1 decision, that sexual discrimination influenced the department’s refusal to tenure Skocpol.In August 1981, when Skocpol had already taken a one-year position at the Princeton-affiliated Institute for Advanced Study, then-University president Derek C. Bok announced...
Memorial Church resounded with the sound of hymns and fond tributes last Wednesday at a service in remembrance of longtime Harvard professor and influential economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died April 29 at the age of 97. Hundreds of well-wishers showed up to fill the pews of Memorial Church and listened to an array of speakers as well-known as Galbraith himself share their memories of the former Paul M. Warburg professor of economics emeritus. After a welcome by incoming Harvard President Derek C. Bok, the prolific author’s son James K. Galbraith...
DIED. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, dynamic Wellesley College economist credited with upping the number of women in economics and business by inspiring her students to enter those male-dominated fields and helping to produce what the New York Times in 1995 called the "Wellesley factor"; in Arlington...
...report—authored by five-professor group chaired by political scientist Peter A. Hall, and including historian David R. Armitage, economist Edward L. Glaeser, sociologist Mary C. Waters, and political scientist Theda Skocpol—called for a smaller steering committee that will manage and direct the department...