Andrei Shleifer (born February 20, 1961) is a prominent academic economist. He was born in Russia and emigrated to Rochester, NY as a teenager. He then studied economics, obtaining his Ph.D. at MIT in 1986. He has held a post in the Department of Economics at Harvard University since 1991 and was, from 2001 through 2006, the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Economics. In 1999, Shleifer was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, … Wikipedia
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Then, in quiet contrast, there is the case of economics professor Andrei Shleifer, who in the mid-1990s led a Harvard advisory program in Russia that collapsed in disgrace. www.dailyii.com/article.asp?ArticleID=1020662
The US government's long-running wrangle with economist Andrei
Shleifer and Harvard University over Harvard's ill-fated Russia
Project in the 1990s was resolved last week, in the government's
favor. www.economicprincipals.com/issues/04.07.04.html
Shleifer, the Jones professor of economics, emerged far less scathed in the settlement, agreeing to pay just 2 million. www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=508343