Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Frederick Hillier (1936-2026)

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 I never took a course from Fred Hillier when I was a PhD student in the Department of Operations Research at Stanford from 1971-73, but as ...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Zhang Xuefeng (1984-2026), guided Chinese families through the college admissions process

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 A Chinese college-admissions influencer has died, who helped families choose which colleges and majors to rank, after they received the res...
Friday, April 3, 2026

Stanford remembers John Roberts (1945-2026)

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  Economist John Roberts, leader in organizational research, dies at 80 The Stanford professor’s work brought game theory to management prac...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Steven Pinker on Robert Trivers (1943-2026)

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 Pinker writes about how Trivers introduced game-theoretic ideas into evolutionary biology (with genes as the players, and selection into su...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Ed Peskowitz (1944-2026)

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 After an eventful life, with major accomplishments in business and philanthropy, Ed Peskowitz succumbed to kidney failure this week.  I met...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Joe Halpern (1953-2026)

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 Joseph Halpern was an early explorer of the interface between computer science and game theory.   Here's his funeral home obit:  Josep...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

John Henry Kagel (1942-2026), an incomparable experimental economist

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 John Kagel will be buried this morning,  January 7, at  New Tifereth Israel Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. He passed away yesterday.  I don...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The year in passings

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 It's been a long year in many ways.  Here are the partings noted on this blog: Sunday, December 21, 2025  Michel Callon (1945–2025): A ...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Michel Callon (1945–2025): A life with passion for economies, in J. of Cultural Economy

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Here's an appreciation of the great economic sociologist:   Michel Callon (1945–2025): A life with passion for economies Koray Caliskan ...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Kate Ho (1972-2025)

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 Kate Ho has passed away, tragically early.  I met her when she was a grad student at Harvard, who worked with Ariel Pakes. Here's the ...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Tom Stoppard (1937 –2025)

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 Tom Stoppard, the great English playwright, passed away last week. I saw many of his plays, including his last one, about his apparently la...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Ludwig Amadeus Minelli (5 December 1932 – 29 November 2025), leader of Dignitas assisted suicide organization

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 The Washington Post has the story Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92.  Dignitas, which Mr. Mine...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Scientists and policy makers with feet of clay

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  A recent article in The Lancet talks about the checkered career of the late James Watson (1928-2025), who participated in great science (t...
Monday, November 3, 2025

David Gale (1921-2008) remembered, with a (belated) 100th birthday volume

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 David Gale (1921-2008) was honored recently with the publication of a volume commissioned at the time of his 100th birthday.  The editors r...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

John Gurdon (1933-2025)

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One hope for a future free of the need for human organ transplants is that it might become possible to re-initiate the process by which embr...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

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Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways. Jane Goodall also communicated to a broad audience, an...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

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  Hans Kjellberg  informs me that the eminent sociologist of markets, Michel Callon has died. Kjellberg writes about his long collaboration...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Workshop in Memory of YingHua He, July 7-8

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 The Paris School of Economics, the Center for Economic and Statistical Research, and the Toulouse School of Economics are organizing a Work...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members (4 economists: Steve Berry, Parag Pathak, Ed Leamer, and Sergiu Hart)

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 Congratulations to all the new members, and to the four newly elected economists. Of note: One of the economists is unusually young for thi...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Pat Bajari (1969-2025)

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 Pat Bajari has died at 55.  As Amazon's chief economist from 2010-2023, he oversaw a revolution in the labor market for economists, ma...