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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…

Olly Williamson (1932-2020)

The great student of transaction costs, Oliver (Olly) Williamson, has died. Here's the Berkeley…

John Horton Conway (1937-2020)

John Horton Conway, the  John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computation Mathematics, Emeritu…

The year in passings

I noted a number of deaths this year (and memorials for earlier passings):   Michel Balinski (1933-…

Who is a refugee? Remembering U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata

The Lancet recalls the life and work of Sadako Ogata, born 16 September 1927; died 22 October 2019.…

Egon Balas, 1922-2019

I only now learned that Egon Balas passed away in March, at the age of 96.   I last saw him in 2017…

Ed Green, 1948-2019

Ran Shorrer at Penn State passes on the news that his colleague Ed Green died Saturday morning afte…

In Memoriam: Martin Shubik

Ben Mattison and Kerry DeDomenico at Yale have sent around an email pointing to some brief remembra…

Marty Weitzman, 1942-2019

For many years, Marty and I both had offices on the third floor of the Littauer building at Harvard…

Mark Kleiman (1951-2019)

From the NY Times: Mark Kleiman, Who Fought to Lift Ban on Marijuana, Dies at 68 "Kelly Kleima…

Xenotransplants, Baby Fae, and the complex pioneering efforts of Dr. Leonard Bailey, RIP

The recent death of Dr. Leonard Bailey (who performed the first successful heart transplant to an i…

Memorial service for Martin Shubik today at Yale

I'm in New Orleans today, which I think Martin would have enjoyed, but if you are in New Haven,…

Special issue of NRL in honor of Uri Rothblum, February 2019

Occasionally an Operations journal can bring memories flooding back: here's a special issue in …

Dr. Oscar Salvatierra, Jr. (1935 - 2019)

Here's the Stanford obituary of the pioneering kidney transplant surgeon: Pioneering pediatric …

Alan Krueger (1960-2019)

I was shaken today by the news of Alan Krueger's death: Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clint…

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