West: Summers=Sharon

[Michael Perelman]

MIT, Stanford and U. Cal. have been the most aggressive in pursuit of
corporate $$.  Harvard has done pretty well also.  I have not heard about
Princeton doing very much in that regard.  Maybe I am out of the loop.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:17:10PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> But wouldn't the same logic apply to Princeton? I don't quite get why 
> Princeton is so eager to hire away the stars of Harvard's A-A 
> department for precisely those reasons. I'm sure most alums (is there 
> a Princetonian equivalent of the Yale term "Old Blues"?) wouldn't be 
> inspired to open their checkbooks by West's hiring. Is it academic 
> prestige? Some notion of affirmative action for the University of 
> Virginia of the North? Any ideas?

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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