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...Shleifer ’82 is one of the most prominent economists in the world, with the most citations of any economist, according to one measure. But his career was tainted when he and various acquaintances, as well as Harvard, were sued under the False Claims Act for buying Russian stocks and short-term state bonds in violation of Harvard’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development. In 2005, a settlement was reached between the government and the defendant parties, with Harvard and Shleifer paying millions of dollars in damages. And up until last week...
Harvard also paid $26.5 million last year to settle a five-year-long lawsuit over Shleifer’s work advising a U.S.-funded program to privatize the Russian economy during the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union...
...hand, this is typical Harvard self-congratulation,” said Anne Lounsbery, assistant professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU and a former graduate student in the program. “But you come because it is great content—the level of discourse is guaranteed to be high, even if it’s self-consciously high...
...evolutionary biology, philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and visual and environmental studies, according to Kenen. Several of these departments plan to offer more than one secondary field. For example, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures submitted a proposal suggesting two separate tracks, one in Russian studies and one in Central European studies, according to Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Justin M. Weir. The EPC has also received proposals that are not directly affiliated with specific departments; some professors, for example, have submitted a proposal for an interdisciplinary secondary field in health policy. The deadline...
...comment on the details of the professor’s punishment. The Crimson first reported the conclusion of a months-long investigation of Shleifer on Thursday. The ethics inquiry centered on allegations that the professor had violated Harvard conflict-of-interest rules when he made private investments in the Russian economy while advising a federally funded and Harvard-run aid program in the country. A federal judge found Shleifer liable for conspiring to defraud the U.S. government in 2004, and Harvard last year paid $26.5 million to settle the case, while Shleifer, who has denied wrongdoing, paid $2 million. Interim...