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"I delivered 20-some copies of Mike's book to members of the department and said, `read it over the weekend,' and they did," Schelling recounts. "By the meeting on Tuesday they were, I would say, wildly enthusiastic--because they had read the book."
Schelling's story paints a revealing picture of the young Mike Spence--the 40-year-old wunderkind who became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences after a rapid rise in Harvard'sEconomics Department.
"He is unusual in that he has all the talentsof a highly mathematical theoretician but he issimultaneously very much interested in practicalmatters of economics and business administration,"says Schelling, now Littauer professor ofpolitical economy at the Kennedy School.
Spence held a joint appointment between theEconomics Department and the Business School,demonstrating, according to Schelling, thediversity of his scholarship.
"I think one of the reasons he wanted to becomedean was so that he could practice what he hadbeen studying," says Schelling.