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After receiving a Ph.D in Economics in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Miron worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Drug Use and the Workplace, and the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research...
Sitting in front of a laptop in his Littauer office last Tuesday, his finger occasionally perched over the mouse, Miron waited for the resignation e-mail from fellow MIT alum University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was one of Miron’s dissertation advisers...
...really cared about his students, and he might forget to show up to an appointment, but once you actually met him, he could give you better advice about a paper you were writing in an hour than ten other economists could in a whole day,” Miron says. “He thought so clearly and interestingly about what was the heart of the matter...
...Larry focused on...real understanding as opposed to high-tech flashiness,” Miron says, echoing the praise his own students have...
...someone who has recently found an academic home he enjoys, Miron says he sympathizes with his friend’s situation...