[lbo-talk] Lestor Thurow?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 13 08:35:30 PST 2015



> On Dec 13, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> What ever happed to Lestor Thurow? I remember back in the 1980's, he was ubiquitous. He was always on TV, he always had op-ed pieces in the NY Times, his books were on the bestseller's lists. During those days, he was one of the Democrats' leading point men on economic policy.
>
> Nowadays, you hardly ever hear a peep from him or about him. What happened?

I've wondered the same thing myself. He's still listed on the MIT Sloan website

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=41073

but the latest publication on their list is from 1999. Wikipedia has some more recent stuff, but not much. He's no youth, for sure.

Doug



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