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...year: in last fall's Visiting Committee report on the Economics Department, which criticized the department for the poor quality and content of its graduate program and for the "strong sense of alienation and frustration" among its nontenured faculty and graduate students; and in Nobel Prize-winner Wassily W. Leontief's resignation and citing of the report as a reason for his departure...
Thus, while the Ec Department underwent its trauma over the Visiting Committee report and the loss of Leontief, the senior faculty voted to appoint Marxist economic historian William H. Lazonick to an assistant professorship in Economics...
...sources in the department said last week that the department is considering graduate program reforms to stop future grad school applicants from "voting with their feet," just as Leontief did in January...
...Griliches, professor of Economics and chairman of the department's graduate admissions committee, last week blamed the bad national publicity the department endured following Leontief's resignation for the loss of several highly-rated graduate school applicants in Economics to MIT, Harvard's main competitor...
Griliches is disturbed by the drift among future economics stars away from Harvard and attributes it mainly to the department's reputation for "impersonality and coldness," which was highlighted by an article in The New York Times after Leontief's announcement and by word-passing and gossip in other universities' economics departments...