In Memoriam

Richard N. Cooper passed away in December of 2020. He was a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Panel of the US Chief of Naval Operations, and the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. He has served on...

Martin L. Weitzman was a Research Professor of Economics at Harvard University until his passing on August 27, 2019. Previously he was on the faculties of MIT and Yale. He has been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy...

Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, passed away on June 11, 2019. He was a faculty member in the Department of Economics for 52 years, 1967 to 2019.  Marty's teaching and research focused on issues of taxation, social insurance and...

Jeffrey Gale Williamson served as Chairman of the Economics Department 1997-2000 and as the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies 2001-2002 and 2004-2005. He is now the Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Honorary Fellow in the...

Gary Chamberlain passed away in February of 2020. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and became a Professor of Economics at Harvard in 1987, and the Louis Berkman Professor of Economics in 2002. His research topics included panel data...

Emmanuel Farhi's research focused on macroeconomics, finance, international economics, and public finance. His papers have been published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal...