Harold Tafler Shapiro (born June 8, 1935, Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian-American economist specializing in econometrics and mathematical economics, also engaged in science policy and the evolution of higher education as a social institution, and in recent years, bioethics. He is a professor at Princeton University and his 18th president (1988-2001) - then emyre, before being president of the University of Michigan (1980-1988). Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) and the Medical Academy (1989) of the United States, the American Philosophical Society (1990). He was awarded the Public Welfare Medal (2012) - the most prestigious award of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
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Biography
Graduated from McGill University (bachelor, 1956). He received a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1964, and studied there since 1961. Apprentice of William Baumol .
Since 2001, EMERIT President of Princeton University. Before entering Princeton University, for almost a quarter of a century, from 1964 to 1988, he taught at the Department of Economics of the University of Michigan and served as its president in 1980-1988 (since 1964 an assistant professor, since 1967 an associate professor, since 1970 Professor, Provost since 1977).
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1990) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2001).
Manager of the . Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study (since 2009). Trustee of the Alfred Sloan Foundation .
Marked by 2009], William D. Carey Lecture (2006) and James Madison Medal (2004). He has been awarded many honorary doctorates: Michigan Institute of Technology (1980), Wayne University (1980), Central Michigan University (1980), Albion College (1985), University of Michigan (1987), University of Michigan (1987), Ruther University (1988) Yale University (1988), McGill University (1988), University of Toronto (1994), New York Yeshiva University (1996), University of Edinburgh (2000).
Married, four daughters, grandchildren.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 137835590 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
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- Princeton University & CV