Shirley Marie Tilghman,is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy and president emerita of Princeton University. In 2002,Discover magazine recognized her as one of the 50 most important women in science.
Bernard Jack Shapiro,is a Canadian academic,civil servant,former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004,and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17,2004 and March 29,2007.
James Gordon MacKinnon is currently the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at Queen's University,Kingston,Ontario,where he has spent his entire academic career and previously served as Head of the department.
Sir Angus Stewart Deaton is a British-American economist and academic. Deaton is currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty,inequality,health,wellbeing,and economic development.
Bartha Maria Knoppers,OC OQ is a Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics,genomics and biotechnology.
The Desautels Faculty of Management is a faculty of McGill University in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. The faculty offers a range of undergraduate and graduate-level business programs,including the Bachelor of Commerce,Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy in management degrees. The Faculty of Management also offers a joint MBA/Law program with McGill's Faculty of Law.
Sir Timothy John Besley,is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
The Latke–Hamantash Debate is a deliberately humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually. Subsequent debates have taken place at several other universities. Participants in the debate,held within the format of a symposium,have included past University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray,philosopher Martha Nussbaum,former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee,Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman,George Stigler,Leon M. Lederman,and essayist Allan Bloom. A compendium of the debate,which has never been won,was published in 2005.
Elhanan Helpman is an Israeli economist who is currently the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. Helpman is among the thirty most cited economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.
Paul N. Courant is an American economist who is an expert in public goods. His recent research focuses on the economics of universities,the economics of libraries and archives,and the impact of new information technologies on the scholarly publishing system.
Leonard Wantchekon is a Beninese economist and professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs,and an affiliate of the Economics Department at Princeton University. He taught at Yale University (1995–2001) and New York University (2001–2011). He is the founding director of the African School of Economics,which is based in Benin. His study with Nathan Nunn on the impact of slave trading on modern-day trust is among the most-cited studies in economics.
Jan Kmenta was a Czech-American economist. He was the Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics at the University of Michigan and Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague,until summer 2016.
William Bentley MacLeod is a Canadian-American economist. He is Lecturer with Rank of Professor and Research Scholar at Princeton University,and the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs Emeritus at Columbia University. He is a specialist in the fields of labor economics and health economics,and law and economics.
Mildred Z. Solomon is an American bioethics researcher.
Stephen Redding is a British-American economist,focusing in international trade and economic geography and productivity and economic growth,currently the Harold T. Shapiro *64 Professor in Economics at Princeton University.
Michael David Bordo is a Canadian and American economist,currently Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the third most influential economic historian worldwide according to the RePEc/IDEAS rankings. He was a student of Milton Friedman and has co-authored numerous books and articles with Anna Schwartz.
The Princeton University Department of Economics is an academic department of Princeton University,an Ivy League institution located in Princeton,New Jersey. The department is renowned as one of the premier programs worldwide for the study of economics. The university offers undergraduate A.B. degrees,as well as graduate degrees at the Ph.D. level. It is often considered one of the "big five" schools in the field,along with the faculties at the University of Chicago,Harvard University,Stanford University,and MIT. According to the 2023-2024 U.S. News &World Report,its graduate department is ranked as the joint No. 4 in the field of economics,in a four-way tie between it,the University of Chicago,Yale University,and the University of California,Berkeley.
Eric M. Meslin PhD is a Canadian-American philosopher-bioethicist and current President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA).
Donald E. Stokes was an American political scientist and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Stokes was a founder of public opinion research,and a coauthor of the seminal book The American Voter.
