| | 41 | Name: | Dr. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer | | | Institution: | France | | | Year Elected: | 1972 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | January 2, 1994 | | | | |
| 42 | Name: | Dr. Eytan Sheshinski | | | Institution: | The Hebrew University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Eytan Sheshinski is the Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Public Finance at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Born in Israel and educated at the Hebrew University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has made major contributions to the theory of economic growth and technical progress, optimal price adjustment policies under inflation and, more notably, to the theory of Public Economics, i.e. optimal income taxation, public goods, social insurance and the market for annuities. Dr. Sheshinski's recent work focuses on the implications of individuals' bounded rationality on public policy and welfare. Putting theory into practice, he chaired, from 1990-1995, the Board of Directors of Koor Industries, a multinational corporation based in Israel. He also has served as consultant to Transition Economies and Latin-American countries on privatization and design of pension programs. Dr. Sheshinski is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an honorary foreign member of the AAAS in Boston, and a doctor Honoris-Causa from the Stockholm School of Economics. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
| 43 | Name: | Professor Quentin Skinner | | | Institution: | University of London | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Quentin Skinner was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University from 1996 to 2008. He is now Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. One of the most innovative as well as influential students of political thought in the history of the West now writing, he spent the years 1974-79 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and is a valuable representative of the English and European scholarly communities. Dr. Skinner's historical writings have long been characterised by an interest in recovering the ideas of Renaissance republican authors. With John Pocock he is regarded as one of the two principal members of the influential "Cambridge School" of the study of the history of political thought. Dr. Skinner's particular contribution was to articulate a theory of interpretation which concentrated on recovering the author's intentions in writing classic works of political theory. Of continuing interest have been the works of Machiavelli, Thomas More and Thomas Hobbes. Dr. Skinner received his M.A. from Cambridge in 1962 and has served the university ever since as a lecturer and professor. He is a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & and Sciences and the recipient of the Wolfson Literary Award (1979). His publications include Foundations of Modern Political Thought (2 vol., 1978); Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (1996); Liberty Before Liberalism (1998); and Hobbes and Republican Liberty (2008). | |
| 44 | Name: | Dr. Mysore N. Srinivas | | | Institution: | National Institute of Advanced Studies | | | Year Elected: | 1974 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | 11/30/99 | | | | |
| 45 | Name: | Lord Nicholas Stern | | | Institution: | London School of Economics; British Academy | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Professor Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. He is President of the British Academy (from July 2013), and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014).
Professor Stern has held academic appointments in the UK at Oxford, Warwick and the LSE and abroad including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People’s University of China in Beijing.
He was Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, 2000-2003.
He was Second Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury from 2003-2005; Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa from 2004-2005; Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published in 2006; and Head of the Government Economic Service from 2003-2007.
He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007. He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles and his most recent book is Why are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change.
He holds 12 honorary degrees and has received the Blue Planet Prize (2009), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), the Leontief Prize (2010), and the Schumpeter Award (2015), amongst many others. | |
| 46 | Name: | Dr. Jean Stoetzel | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 2/21/87 | | | | |
| 47 | Name: | Dr. Jan Tinbergen | | | Institution: | Erasmus University, Rotterdam | | | Year Elected: | 1963 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 6/9/94 | | | | |
| 48 | Name: | Ms. Claire Tomalin | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | | | | |
Claire Tomalin, nee Delavenay, was born in 1933 in London of a French father and an English mother, studied at Cambridge, worked in publishing and journalism as literary editor of the New Statesman, then the Sunday Times, while bringing up her children. In 1974 she published her first book The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, which won the Whitbread First Book Prize. Since then she has researched and written Shelley and His World, 1980; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, 1987; The Invisible Woman: the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, 1991 [NCR, Hawthornden, James Tait Black prizes - now being filmed with Ralph Fiennes]; Mrs Jordan's Profession, 1994; Jane Austen: A Life, 1997; Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self, 2002 [Whitbread biography and Book of the Year prizes, Pepys Society Prize, Rose Crawshay Prize]. Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man appeared in 2006, after which she made a television film about Hardy, and published a selection of Hardy’s poems. Her Charles Dickens: A Life was published in 2011.
She organized two exhibitions, about the Regency actress Mrs. Jordan at Kenwood in 1995, and about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in 1997. She also edited and introduced Mary Shelley’s story for children, Maurice. A collection of her reviews, Several Strangers, appeared in 1999.
She has served on the Committee of the London Library and as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and the Wordsworth Trust. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Literary Fund, of the Royal Society of Literature and of English PEN. She enjoys walking, gardening, travelling, being with her children and grandchildren, and listening to classical music and opera. She lives in London and is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn. | |
| 49 | Name: | Dame Veronica Wedgwood | | | Institution: | University College of London | | | Year Elected: | 1969 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 3/9/97 | | | | |
| 50 | Name: | Dr. Esmond Wright | | | Institution: | University of London | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | August 9, 2003 | | | | |
| 51 | Name: | Sir Anthony Wrigley | | | Institution: | The British Academy; University of Cambridge; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | February 24. 2022 | | | | | | |
E.A. Wrigley (Sir Tony) was president of the British Academy from 1997-2001. Educated at Cambridge University, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 1957. Initially working in the field of geography, he is now best characterized as a historical demographer, a discipline that combines geography with economic history. In 1965, he co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, serving as its co-director from 1974-94. During this time, he also held single year appointments at both the Institute for Advanced Study and Johns Hopkins University. Sir Tony has held chairs in Population Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Studies and in Economic History at Cambridge. During this period, he published, along with R.S. Schofield, the exhaustive study, The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981). He also served as co-editor of an eight volume collection entitled The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. From 1988-94, he served as a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and as president of Manchester College. He left both posts in 1994 to become Master of Corpus Christi College, a position he held until 2000. Sir Tony has been awarded the title of Knight Bachelor (1996) for his services to historical demography as well as the 1997 Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. | |
| 52 | Name: | Dr. Menahem E. Yaari | | | Institution: | The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
Menahem Yaari is a former President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics Emeritus at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University (1962) and taught at Yale University from 1962-67. Yaari's seminal work is his 1965 paper "Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer," in which he developed a pioneering model of optimum saving under uncertainty about longevity and the role of competitive annuity markets. The paper became a classic and its central theorem that individuals should invest all their savings in deferred annuities has started a new branch of economic theory with numerous articles and thousands of citations. The paper, "A Model of Fixed Capital without Substitution", written jointly with two Nobel-prize winners, Solow and Tobin, and with Ch. V. Weisazacker, made a major contribution to the theory of technical progress and growth. It formulated the first model of technical progress embodied in capital, leading to a shift in theory and empirical studies towards the need for replacing functioning equipment that has become obsolete. His paper on "Changing Tastes" is recognized as a forerunner of the modern theory of behavioral economics (bounded rationality). Finally, his paper on "The Dual Theory of Choice under Risk" has developed a new widely used game-theoretic approach to decision and measures of risk aversion. Yaari's election as head of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities is a recognition of his standing and contributions to Israeli academia and to intellectual discourse in the country. He is also a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, which works to bring together Israeli and Palestinian scholars, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1988). Menahem Yaari was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. | |
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