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Every two years, the American Economics Association awards its prestigious John Bates Clark Medal to the country’s top economist under 40. Recent Harvard winners include Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 and University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Raised in New York, Glaeser is the son of a Museum of Modern Art curator, although the economist claims to have “unbelievably little artistic ability.” Moreover, a June 2000 paper co-authored by Glaeser concluded that art museums have no significant impact on a city’s economic growth...
Jesse M. Shapiro ’01, an economics graduate student who co-authored the obesity study with Glaeser and Cutler, described Glaeser as “an extraordinary teacher and adviser...In addition to being a brilliant economist, he is also widely read in history and literature...
Altshuler said Glaeser currently is “the only economist among the faculty members who are most deeply involved in the [Taubman] Center.” But he added that Glaeser “will be able to draw many other economists into the work of the center...
...sure, once the Fed starts raising rates, you never know how far it will go. Stephen Roach, global chief economist at Morgan Stanley, says the Fed has been "irresponsible" in not boosting rates already. He is worried that a series of stiff hikes may be needed to make up for lost time. Uncertainty surrounding how far and how fast rates will rise is what has investors running for cover. But few believe the coming rate boosts will stop the recovery. Economists generally expect orderly rate increases that by the end of 2005 will have pushed the benchmark short-term...