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Steven F.
Goldstone Endowed Term Chairs: in Economics, Dr. Andrew Postlewaite
SAS
Dean Samuel H. Preston has announced that Drs. Samuel Freeman, Jack
Nagel, and Andrew Postlewaite have been appointed to the Steven
F. Goldstone Endowed Term Chairs for Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Dr.
Postlewaite is a professor of economics and finance. He came to
Penn in 1980 after serving as an associate professor at the University
of Illinois, where he received both undergraduate and graduate teaching
awards. He received his B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University in
1965, his M.S. from DePaul University in 1969, and his Ph.D. from
Northwestern University in 1974. His research and teaching interests
include microeconomic theory and public economics.
A
world-class scholar, he has been a visiting professor at Stanford
University, Princeton University, the University of California at
San Diego, the University of Tokyo, Tel Aviv University, and Chulalongkorn
University in Thailand. He has been a visiting scholar at the London
School of Economics, Western Ontario University, the Federal Reserve
Banks of Philadelphia and Minneapolis, the University of Bonn, European
University in Florence, the University of Toulouse, and Autonomous
University of Barcelona, and a visiting research associate at Bell
Laboratories.
In
addition, Dr. Postlewaite has chaired the economics department and
the provost search committee at Penn. He has published extensively
and is the co-editor of Econometrica and the former editor
of the International Economic Review. He is a fellow of the
Econometric Society and has received grants from NSF and the Sloan
Foundation.
The
Steven F. Goldstone Endowed Term Chairs for Philosophy, Politics,
and Economics were established earlier this year (Almanac
Febuary
27, 2001) by Steven F. Goldstone, retired chairman of Nabisco
Group Holdings. Mr. Goldstone, who graduated from the College in
1967, joined Nabisco in 1995. Previously, he was a senior partner
with the New York City law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell.
Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 12, November 13, 2001
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