What values do we bequeath to our grandchildren? Alberto Alesina et al. on the generations following the Cultural Revolution in China
In what is perhaps the last paper he completed before his recent untimely death on May 23 from a he…
In what is perhaps the last paper he completed before his recent untimely death on May 23 from a he…
The great student of transaction costs, Oliver (Olly) Williamson, has died. Here's the Berkeley…
John Horton Conway, the John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computation Mathematics, Emeritu…
I noted a number of deaths this year (and memorials for earlier passings): Michel Balinski (1933-…
The Lancet recalls the life and work of Sadako Ogata, born 16 September 1927; died 22 October 2019.…
I only now learned that Egon Balas passed away in March, at the age of 96. I last saw him in 2017…
Ran Shorrer at Penn State passes on the news that his colleague Ed Green died Saturday morning afte…
Ben Mattison and Kerry DeDomenico at Yale have sent around an email pointing to some brief remembra…
For many years, Marty and I both had offices on the third floor of the Littauer building at Harvard…
From the NY Times: Mark Kleiman, Who Fought to Lift Ban on Marijuana, Dies at 68 "Kelly Kleima…
The recent death of Dr. Leonard Bailey (who performed the first successful heart transplant to an i…
I'm in New Orleans today, which I think Martin would have enjoyed, but if you are in New Haven,…
Occasionally an Operations journal can bring memories flooding back: here's a special issue in …
Here's the Stanford obituary of the pioneering kidney transplant surgeon: Pioneering pediatric …
I was shaken today by the news of Alan Krueger's death: Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clint…