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EGC Affiliate Spotlight: Sam Kortum
Winner of the Frisch Medal and the Onassis Prize for International Trade, Kortum studies technology, international trade – and recently, carbon policy.
Professor Samuel Kortum on trade research, climate policy, and his path as an economist
by Sarah Guan
February 2, 2021
Sam Kortum at the Trade and Development conference, hosted by EGC on February 28, 2020. Photo Credit: Julia Luckett Photography
For Sam Kortum, the James Burrow Moffett Professor of Economics at Yale, becoming an EGC affiliate in 2020 meant coming full circle. As a Yale PhD student in the late 80s, Kortum worked with Professor Robert E. Evenson, development economist and director of EGC from 1997 to 2000 and of the IDE program from 1977 to 2003.
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During the first week and a half of the Biden administration, Americans have been treated to an unusual sight in Washington: regulators who believe in regulation. Donald Trump seemed to scour the earth for candidates who would produce the most liberal tears, appointing former lobbyists, financiers, ideologues and corporate titans.
President Joe Biden’s appointees and nominees, by contrast, do not adamantly oppose the mission of the agencies they aspire to lead. More than that: Some of his early choices are among the most aggressive financial and corporate regulators of recent years.
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During the first weeks of the Biden administration, Americans have been treated to an unusual sight in Washington: regulators who believe in regulation. Donald Trump seemed to scour the earth for candidates who would produce the most liberal tears, appointing former lobbyists, financiers, ideologues and corporate titans.
President Biden’s appointees and nominees, by contrast, do not adamantly oppose the mission of the agencies they aspire to lead. More than that: Some of his early choices are among the most aggressive financial and corporate regulators of recent years.
Key financial regulatory positions remain unfilled, and progressives oppose some leading candidates. Still, the left is experiencing a once-inconceivable feeling: It’s … not unhappy?
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences named University Professor Henry Louis âSkipâ Gates, Jr. a recipient of its Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies on Wednesday, making him the seventh honoree since the awardâs inception in 1975.
The Don M. Randel Award was established to recognize intellectuals for âsuperior humanistic scholarship,â according to the Academyâs website. Previous recipients include University of Chicago Law School professor Martha C. Nussbaum and Harvard English professor emerita Helen H. Vendler, who is also a University Professor.
The Academy plans to honor Gates with an in-person ceremony in Cambridge this fall, virus-permitting.