Word: nalebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Currier, Brian Nalebuff, a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows, joins House life by "organizing milk and cookies, help helping students with their essays, eating with them in the dining half four to five times a week, rowing and playing squash for the House, and proctoring parties...
...current fellow is Psychologist Drazen Prelec, a Yugoslav who is developing a mathematical formulation for B.F. Skinner's reinforcement theories in behavioral psychology. Economist Barry Nalebuff, an M.I.T. graduate with a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, is applying games theory to problems of disarmament. Princeton Classicist Nita Krevans (women were first admitted in 1972) is exploring how the publication of manuscripts changed the way the authors thought about their compositions. Historian Mordechai Feingold is studying early modern intellectual history, including the work of Britain's John Rainolds, who in the early 17th century helped translate the King...
...fellows, junior and senior, meet every Monday night to dine and share fine wine in their oak-paneled rooms in Harvard's Eliot House. Says Nalebuff: "I think there's less pretense here than any place I've been. Nobody's competing with anyone else. You don't have to prove yourself." The exchanges can be irreverent. When M.I.T. Economist and Senior Fellow Robert Solow, 58, advises Theoretical Physicist Paul Ginsparg, 27, that he will soon be "over the hill" for his profession, the junior fellow retorts, "Then I can become an economist...