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Professor Maskin Receives Beijing Great Wall Friendship Award

February 23, 2022

Professor Maskin Receives Beijing Great Wall Friendship Award from the government of Beijing. 

In order to appreciate and commend foreigners for their outstanding contribution to Beijing's economic and social development and their dedication at work, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality established the Great Wall Friendship Award in 1999, which is the highest honor granted by Beijing to foreign nationals in the city. So far 191 foreigners from 30 countries have won the award.

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Professor Stefanie Stantcheva to Be Awarded the 7th Calvó-Armengol Prize

October 21, 2021

The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics has announced that the seventh Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics will be awarded to Professor Stefanie Stantcheva for her "pioneering research that integrates human capital into optimal tax theory and creative empirical work on the mobility response to taxation."

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Janos Kornai

In Memoriam: János Kornai 1928 - 2021

October 19, 2021

The Harvard economics department deeply regrets the passing of emeritus Professor János Kornai, who served as Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics from 1986 to 2002.  Professor Kornai made seminal contributions to comparative economics and to our understanding of socialist economies.  His 1980 volume on the “Economics of Shortage” explained why shortages were so endemic in socialist economies, and introduced the concept of a “soft budget...

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Marcella Alsan and Jesse Shapiro Awarded MacArthur Fellowships

September 28, 2021

We are delighted to note that two of our former Ph.D. students (both also Harvard College undergraduates) were recognized as MacArthur Fellows in 2021 . Marcella Alsan, who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School has done pioneering work on the causes, impact, and history of health disparities by race. Jesse Shapiro, who teaches at Brown University, has made significant contributions across a broad range of fields, but is particularly known for his path-breaking work on...

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