| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Victor R. Fuchs | | | Institution: | Stanford University & National Bureau of Economic Research | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | September 16, 2023 | | | | | | |
Victor Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor of Economics and of Health Research and Policy, Emeritus at Stanford University; a Freeman Spogli Institute senior fellow; and a core faculty member at Stanford's Center for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research. He uses economic theory to provide a framework for the collection and analysis of healthcare data. Dr. Fuchs has written extensively on the cost of medical care and on determinants of health, with an emphasis on the role of socioeconomic factors. He has been particularly interested in the role of physician behavior and financial incentives in determining healthcare expenditures. His current research examines inequality in the length of life, individual and social responsibility for health, and the economics of aging. He is also developing a proposal for a "universal healthcare voucher" system in which all families or individuals would be given a voucher -- financed by an earmarked value-added tax -- that would guarantee them coverage in a private health insurance plan with a standardized package of benefits, including basic health services and catastrophic coverage. Dr. Fuchs received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955. He is the author of works including Who Shall Live? Health, Economics and Social Choice (1974) and The Health Economy (1986). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Judith Nisse Shklar | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | 9/16/92 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Michael Walzer | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
Michael Walzer has made major contributions in a number of fields, including political philosophy; moral theory; the history of social theory; the history and sociology of religion; and the history and theory of social criticism. His ability to combine theoretical, normative and historical approaches in these areas is unmatched. Over the years he has written on a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation; just and unjust war; nationalism and ethnicity; economic justice; and the welfare state. He has also played a part in the revival of a practical, issue focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life. He is currently working on the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all its forms and also on a (collaborative) project focused on the history of Jewish political thought. A professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study since 1980, Dr. Walzer previously taught at Princeton (1962-66) and Harvard Universities (1966-80). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961. Described by Political Theory as "one of the truly significant American political thinkers of our time," Dr. Walzer has numerous publications to his credit, including The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics (1965); Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenship (1970); Just and Unjust Wars (1977); Exodus and Revolution (1985); The Company of Critics (1988); Toward a Global Civil Society (1995); War, Politics, and Morality (2001); Politics and Passion: Towards a More Egalitarian Liberalism (2004); Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory (2007); and In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible (2012). In April 2008, Michael Walzer was awarded the prestigious Spinozalens, a bi-annual prize for ethics in The Netherlands. A book in Dutch entitled Justice Without Boundaries, comprised of his lecture, other essays and an interview, was published simultaneously to the award. Michael Walzer was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1990. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. William Julius Wilson | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | | | | |
William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include urban poverty, urban race and class relations, and social inequality in cross-cultural perspective. He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; When Work Disappears; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide. In 2006 he published There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. A sociologist with a Ph.D. from Washington State University, Dr. Wilson has previously served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1965-71) and the University of Chicago (1972-96) and directed the latter's Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. A MacArthur Prize Fellow and the recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, Dr. Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the Institute of Medicine. His current projects include studies of race and the social organization of neighborhoods, the effects of high-risk neighborhoods on adolescent social outcomes, and the effects of welfare reform on poor families and children. In 2017 he won the SAGE-CASBS Award. | |
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