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Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who is a former chairman of the Harvard economics department, last week acknowledged that "people have raised questions that we are raiding" MIT's department, but he added that Maskin, based on his past experience at Harvard, had a "soft spot" for the University...
...natural thing for him to do," Spence said, referring to Maskin's decision to return to Harvard...
...Maskin, who served as junior faculty member at MIT for eight years, downplayed the significance of his departure from MIT for the Harvard post...
...aware that people have left MIT for Harvard and the other way around, but in economics, people move around a lot," Maskin said. "Harvard and MIT are close, which makes it that much easser for professors to move from one to the other...
Harvard Economics Department members yesterday were quick to praise Maskin and said he would help beef up the department's strength in theoretical studies...