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    Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations
    (Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at Brookings, 2022-12-08) Bernanke, Ben S.
    Ben S. Bernanke, former chair of the United States Federal Reserve, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2022. The lecture he delivered for that occasion is attached. Click on the file link above to read it.
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    Non-Monetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression
    (National Bureau of Economic (NBER), 1983-01) Bernanke, Ben S.
    A research report by Ben Bernanke for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The research reported in this paper formed the basis on which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2022. Click on the file link above to read the paper.
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    Ben Bernanke, former Fed chair, shares economics Nobel for research on banks and crisis
    (Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), 2022-10-12) Kampeas, Ron
    Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the United States Federal Reserve, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2022, which he shared with two other economists. He received the award primarily on the basis of a 1983 paper on the behavior of banks during the Depression. His research was influential in handling the 2008 financial crisis. Click on the link above to read the article.
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    Economics Nobel awarded to Claudia Goldin for work on women in the labor market
    (2023-10-09) Kampeas, Ron
    Harvard professor, Claudia Goldin, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics. The Nobel committee recognized her for her work on gender gaps both in participation in the labor force and in wages. As the Royal Swedish Academy of Science noted in its press release, “Claudia Goldin has trawled the archives and collected over 200 years of data from the U.S., allowing her to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time." Click on the link to read the article
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    Raul Hilberg: Historian prepared to risk his career to expose the Holocaust
    (The Guardian, 2007-09-24) Joffe, Lawrence
    Raul Hilberg, a refugee from Austria, whose family fled Austria to New York City to escape the Holocaust, dedicated his scholarly career to documenting and contextualizing the facts about the Holocaust. He studied at Columbia University, and in 1955 wrote a 700 page dissertation on the Holocaust, which he later expanded into the 3-volume scholarly book, "The Destruction of the European Jews." Paul Shapiro, who had been director of the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, described this work as "the single most influential work in our field and the benchmark for the discipline." Click on the link above to read the article.
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    HowardZinn.org
    (2021) Zinn, Howard
    A Web Site devoted to Howard Zinn. It includes biographical information, archival material from Zinn's papers a various repositories, articles he wrote, interviews with him, information about his many projects, etc. Click on the link above to visit the Web Site. For additional discussion about Zinn and his work, click on the link below.
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    For Historian Howard Zinn, Political Struggle Trumped All Private Concerns
    (Haaretz, 2012-12-17) Thrope, Samuel
    This article discusses the book, "Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left" by Martin Duberman. Zinn was a prominent historian in the 20th century. He was committed to an approach to history that tells the stories of the marginalized and oppressed people, which are overlooked in traditional history. In addition to Zinn's work being a critique of the American political and social structure, he was an engaged political activist. Click on the link above to read the article. For more information about Zinn and for samples of his work, click on the link to his Web Site below.
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    Stanley Aronowitz, longtime labor and civil rights activist, dies at 88
    (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 2021-08-21) Kampeas, Stanley
    "Stanley Aronowitz, a longtime activist and theorist who was hugely influential in the labor and civil rights movements, has died at 88." Click on the link above to access the rest of this biographical obituary.
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    Stanley Aronowitz, Labor Scholar and Activist, Dies at 88
    (The New York Times, 2021-08-23) Roberts, Sam
    "Professor Aronowitz, a social theorist who taught at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, called himself a “working-class intellectual.” He maintained that direct action was a more potent weapon for workers than collective bargaining or conventional politics." Click on the link above to read the rest of this biographical obituary.
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    Alan Greenspan
    (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020) Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica
    Alan Greenspan is an economist who earned his BA and MA in economics at New York University and went on to enroll in the doctoral program at Columbia University. There he met and became close to Ayn Rand and was highly influenced by her philosophy of individual self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism. He was appointed Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board by President Ronald Reagan, and served in that capacity from 1987-2006. He was given credit for the largest economic expansion in US history Recognition for his achievements included the French Legion of Honour and being named an honorary knight by Queen Elizabeth. To read this article in the Encyclopedia Britannica, click on the URI above.For a brief introduction to the beliefs of Ayn Rand, click on the link below.
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    Jewish Leader Irving Abella at 80: An Appreciation
    (TheJ.ca, 2020-07-12) Koffman, David S.
    An article about Irving Abella, Professor Emeritus at York University and eminent historian. Written to honor Abella on his 89th birthday, discusses his many notable achievements, his membership in the Order of Canada, his election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada and the recognition he received from Queen Elizabeth II. He received these honors for the significance of his work as a historian. He did pioneering scholarly work on Jewish studies in Canada, antisemitism in Canada and the Canadian labor movement. Abella is married to Supreme Court Justice, Rosalie Abella. Click on the link above to read the article. For information about Justice Rosalie Abella, click on the link below.
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    Uriel Weinreich: Contact Linguist, Historical Linguist, and Yiddishist Par Excellence
    (BRILL - Journal of Jewish Languages, 2017) Bleaman, Isaac L.
    Uriel Weinreich was a renowned linguist, who, in addition to his work on linguistics generally, made significant contributions to both the study and teaching of Yiddish. This article is part of a special issue of the Journal of Jewish Languages commemorating Weinreich on the 50th yortsayt (anniversary of a death) of Weinreich's death in 1967. The article discusses his life, accomplishments and the influence he made broadly to the field of linguistics and more specifically to the linguistic study of Yiddish. Click on the link above to read the article. The .pdf may be downloaded for free.
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    Janet L. Yellen - Research
    (Brookings Institute, 2020) Brookings Institute
    Links to several presentations Janet Yellen gave at the Brookings Institute, in which she discusses her research. Click on the link above to visit the site.
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    Janet Yellen: Background And Philosophy
    (Investopeida, 2020-11-23) Cussen, Mark P.
    Nominated by President Barack Obama in 2013, Janet Yellen was the first woman to serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2020 President elect Joe Biden nominated her to be the first woman to serve as Secretary of the Treasury. This article describes her background, her education and her academic career, during which she served as professor of economics in a number of prestigious universities. Also described is her approach to economics and the role of government in regulating markets. Click on the link above to read the article.
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    Jeffrey D. Sachs: American economist
    (The Encyclopedia Britannica, 2019-11-01) The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica
    The Encyclopedia Birtannica's biographical article on Jeffrey Sacks discusses the prominent economist, Jeffrey Sachs and some of his notable achievements. His current initiatives are focused around issues of poverty, the economic impacts of climate change and health inequalities. A professor at Columbia University, Sachs has served as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and has served as an economic advisor--with varying degrees of success to foreign governments. Click on the link to read the article.
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    Sustainable Development Goals and Health: Toward a Revolution in Values
    (SpringerOpen, 2020) Sachs, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Sachs contributed the chapter, "Sustainable Development Goals and Health: Toward a Revolution in Values," to the open access book, "Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health." The book grew out of a meeting on the implications and impacts of climate change held at the Vatican in 2011. The volume was edited by Wael K. Al-Delaimy, of the University of California San Diego, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California at San Diego, and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo Bishop-Chancellor of the PontificalnAcademy of SciencesnVatican City, Holy See. The chapter by Jeffrey Sachs is Chapter 32, page 391. Click on the icon to open the whole book and find Sachs' chapter.
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    Information and the Change of the Paradigm in Economics
    (NobelPrize.org, 2001-12-08) Stiglitz, Joseph E.
    Joseph Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. He shared the prize with George Al Akelof and Michael Spence. Their research for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize focused on the interrelationship between information and market forces. Click on the Files link on the lefthand side to read Stiglitz's Nobel Lecture.
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    Joseph E. Stiglitz: American economist
    (The Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020-02-05) The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica
    A brief biography of economistm Joseph Stiglitz in the Encyclopedia Britannica. The article discusses Stiglitz's career and research. Click on the link to read the article.
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    Henry A. Kissinger: United States statesman
    (Encylopedia Britannica, 2020-02-11) The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica
    A biography of Henry Kissinger and description of his career whose service in various cabinet positions spanned ss many presidents. He has served as Secretary of State, national security advisor In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam for their role in negotiating a conclusion to the War in Vietnam. He is also known for his diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China under President Richard Nixon and for his "shuttle diplomacy" after the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 and brokered the resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and Egypt. Click on the link to read the biography.
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    Empirical Linguistics of Zellig S. Harris
    (zelligharris.org, 2015) Harris, Zellig
    Contains source material on the work of Zellig Harris in language, information, applied mathematics, and the foundations of linguistics. Also includes ongoing research and applications in linguistics, informatics, computer science, mathematics, philosophy of science, and social change. Click on the link above to access the Web page.