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...Bernanke is in favor of inflation targeting,” said Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow ’44-’47, an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT who taught Bernanke as a graduate student there. “Greenspan was always against that...
Harvard can only claim one representative—Nobel laureate and Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen—among the world’s top 10 public intellectuals, according to Foreign Policy (FP) and Prospect magazines.This sparse showing comes after Harvard was a dominant presence in a list of the top 100 public intellectuals that the two magazines released in late September. Ten University affiliates were included in that group—the most of any institution worldwide.The final rankings, released last week, were determined by an online vote in which the public was able to rank their top five...
...written plays with cheery names like The Birthday Party and The Lover that are in fact the opposite of cheery, HAROLD PINTER, 75, could be thought of as a bit of a downer. But there was nothing grim about his reaction to the news that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The playwright told reporters he was "bowled over" by the $1.3 million award. He didn't mean it literally; the wound on his head came from a recent fall. Here's hoping we'll finally get a Pinteresque award-acceptance speech. Nothing says elation like tense silence...
...fair amount of work on common law theory, and the university where [Jeremy] Bentham studied will be an ideal place to work.” Schauer is currently completing a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago law school. Of the 65 previous Eastman fellows, 13 were Nobel Prize winners. Schauer will be the third lawyer to hold the post, along with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former HLS professor Felix Frankfurter in 1933-34, and Eugene Rostow, the former dean of Yale Law School, in 1970-72. The Eastman professorship was formed in 1929 in honor of George...
...member of Phi Beta Kappa when he was 18 years old. He then served in the Navy during the last years of World War II. Soon afterward, he worked at the RAND corporation, an Air Force think-tank. There he formed many relationships with his colleagues—including Nobel laureate Harry M. Markowitz—that would last throughout his life. “Alan was a very intelligent and very productive colleague,” Markowitz said. “I have great respect for him.”Manne’s modus operandi throughout his professional...