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...spouses comes up as a subject in virtually every hire. “It is a statement about more women being candidates for junior and senior faculty appointments than they were several years ago,” he said. Lecturer on Government Rachel M. McCleary, who is married to Warburg Professor of Economics Robert J. Barro, said she is on the job market herself because she’s not on a tenure track at Harvard. McClearly said the consortium is a positive first-step, but doesn’t solve the dual-career problem. “I don?...
Galbraith, who joined the Harvard faculty in 1934 fresh from earning his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, retired in 1975 as the Warburg professor of economics, but he remained a presence on and around the University’s campus until his death...
...Opposition to established thought-or to 'conventional wisdom,' as he derisively calls it-is hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics ... He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education...
...influential economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died April 29 at the age of 97. Hundreds of well-wishers showed up to fill the pews of Memorial Church and listened to an array of speakers as well-known as Galbraith himself share their memories of the former Paul M. Warburg professor of economics emeritus. After a welcome by incoming Harvard President Derek C. Bok, the prolific author’s son James K. Galbraith ’74 spoke first, calling his father “my mentor, my coach, my critic, and my friend.” Sen. Edward...
...teaming up with Endesa - which, analysts say, will gradually buy more gas as new gas-fired power plants are built in Spain - would offer its customers something to cheer. "The consumer benefits when the security of supply is increased," points out Nils Machemehl, energy analyst at investment bank M.M. Warburg in Hamburg. "And that would be the case here." Sounds great. But mergers have an odd way of not living up to their architects' expectations, and the energy sector is no exception. While Suez and GdF are aiming to slash annual costs by as much as €500 million, utility...