I sure hope my brain lasts past 65.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Coase is more than 100. Still writing, unless he died recently& I missed it.
I met Scott Nearing when he was just short of 100. He had an incredibly strong handshake.
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
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> He is in his late seventies, but other famous economists like Milton
> Friedman, Paul Samuelson, JK Galbraith, and Paul Sweezy, all lived into
> extreme old age, and they all managed to keep an active public presence,
> almost up to the end. Thurow, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be doing
> this.
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> Jim Farmelant
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> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Lestor Thurow?
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:35:30 -0500
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> > On Dec 13, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> I've wondered the same thing myself. He's still listed on the MIT Sloan
> website
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> https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=41073
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> 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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