Lester Thurow

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Lester Thurow is affiliated with the following schools: Williams College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University

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#73

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#382

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#199

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According to Wikipedia, Lester Carl Thurow was an American political economist, former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of books on economic topics. Education Born in Livingston, Montana, Thurow received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1960, where he was in Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and a Tyng Scholar. After he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, he went to Balliol College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1962 with first class honors. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1964.

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Investment in human capital (1970) (1409)
Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation (1990) (846)
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle among Japan, Europe and America (1993) (582)
Generating Inequality: Mechanisms of Distribution in the U.S. Economy (1975) (481)
The Future of Capitalism (1996) (321)
Head to Head: The Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America (1992) (308)
Building Wealth : The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy (1999) (283)
The Income Distribution as a Pure Public Good (1971) (275)
The Future of Capitalism : How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World (1996) (242)
The Zero-Sum Society. (1981) (237)
Education and Economic Equality. (1972) (216)
The zero-sum society : distribution and the possibilities for economic change (1981) (202)
Needed: a new system of intellectual property rights. (1997) (200)
Poverty and Discrimination. (1971) (175)
The Delta Project: Discovering New Sources of Profitability in a Networked Economy (2001) (166)
Analyzing the American Income Distribution (1970) (161)
The Optimum Lifetime Distribution of Consumption Expenditures: Reply (1969) (159)
A surge in inequality. (1987) (142)
Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics (1985) (138)
Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers (1974) (98)
Learning to say "No". (1984) (93)
Medicine versus economics. (1985) (84)
The Zero-Sum Solution (1980) (67)
Globalization: The Product of a Knowledge-Based Economy (2000) (65)
The zero-sum solution: Building a world-class American economy (1985) (61)
Microchips, Not Potato Chips (1994) (58)
A Weakness in Process Technology (1987) (54)
Revitalizing American Industry: Managing in a Competitive World Economy (1984) (44)
Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity (2005) (43)
The American distribution of income : a structural problem : a study (2017) (42)
Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going (1982) (40)
Disequilibrium and the Marginal Productivity of Capital and Labor (1968) (34)
Psychic Income: Useful or Useless? (1978) (33)
Creating Wealth : The New Rules for Individuals, Companies and Countries in a Knowledge-Based Economy (2000) (33)
Economic Paradigms and Slow American Productivity Growth (1987) (31)
Fortune Favors the Bold: (2003) (30)
Charging ahead : the business of renewable energy and what it means for America (1997) (29)
The Management challenge : Japanese views (1986) (25)
Wage Dispersion: "Who Done It?" (1998) (24)
A Job Competition Model (2017) (23)
The Interaction Between the Actual and the Potential Rates of Growth (1966) (21)
Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics. (1984) (16)
THE THEORY OF GRANTS-IN-AID (1966) (16)
GATT Is Dead; the World Economy as We Know It Is Coming to an End, Taking the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade with It (1990) (15)
The Causes of Poverty (1967) (14)
The impact of taxes on the American economy (1971) (13)
The Political Economy of Income Redistribution. (1973) (12)
Psychic Income: A Market Failure (1980) (12)
AID TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (1970) (12)
Healing with a Thousand Bandages (1985) (8)
The Failure of Education as an Economic Strategy (1982) (8)
The Economic Black Hole (1987) (8)
The Failure of Psychic Income as a Source of Market Failure [with Reply] (1982) (8)
The Changing Structure of Unemployment: An Econometric Study (1965) (8)
Funds to Meet Social Priorities (2008) (8)
Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse (2001) (7)
Surviving in a turbulent environment (1995) (7)
A Disequilibrium Neoclassical Investment Function (1969) (7)
Five Economic Challenges (1981) (6)
Proving the Absence of Positive Associations (1973) (6)
The Deficits: How Big? How Long? How Dangerous? (1985) (6)
Building a world-class economy (1984) (5)
Toward a High-Wage, High-Productivity Service Sector. Background Paper: Service Sector Wages, Productivity and Job Creation in the U.S. and Other Countries. (1989) (5)
Zero economic growth and the distribution of income (1973) (5)
The Income Distribution as a Pure Public Good: A Response (1973) (5)
Do Only Economic Illiterates Argue that Trade Can Destroy Jobs and Lower America’s National Income? (2014) (5)
AN ESTABLISHMENT OR AN OLIGARCHY? (1989) (5)
The Zero-sum Solution: The Route to Economic Growth (1987) (5)
Law Enforcement and Cost-Benefit Analysis (1969) (5)
OPTIMUM TRADE RESTRICTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES (1976) (4)
The Implications of Zero Economic Growth (1977) (4)
Not Making it in America: The Economic Progress of Minority Groups. (1976) (4)
Planning for the New World Economy. (1991) (4)
NET WORTH TAXES (1972) (4)
The Economic Progress of Minority Groups (1976) (4)
Economic Prospects for the Northeast (1984) (4)
Equity Concepts and the World of Work (1975) (4)
A New Economic Game (1996) (3)
American Fiscal Policy: Experiment for Prosperity (1967) (3)
Toward Socio-Economics@@@Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics. (1985) (3)
Can we afford the new medical technologies? (1988) (3)
Review: Generating Inequality: A Review Article (1977) (3)
Toward Socio-Economics (2016) (3)
The Political Economy of Income Redistribution Policies (1973) (3)
At Home: Our Standard of Living Has Not Fallen (1980) (2)
UNCONDITIONAL VERSUS MATCHING GRANTS: A FURTHER REPLY (1968) (2)
The Economic Status of Minorities and Women. (1976) (2)
Democracy and Control in the Workplace, edited by Ed Davis and Russell Lansbury. (Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1986) pp. ix + 388 ISBN 0 582 71159 2 (1987) (2)
Education and Falling Wages. (1994) (2)
The Indirect Incidence of Government Expenditures (1980) (2)
Children, Adolescents, and the Media (2016) (2)
Evaluating Economic Performance and Policies. (1987) (2)
The Need For Industrial Policies The Case of The U.S.A (1984) (2)
A Glass Half Full? Thurow Dissects the Third Industrial Revolution (1999) (2)
UNCONDITIONAL VERSUS MATCHING GRANTS: A REPLY (1967) (2)
Building a better economy (1997) (2)
The Carter Economics: A Symposium (1978) (1)
Where Goes The US Economy (2008) (1)
PUBLIC INTERVENTION IN THE INDUSTRY: The Case of the U.S.A (1985) (1)
The Moral Fog of Progress ‐ Fall 2003 (2008) (1)
The American Economy in the Year 2000 (1972) (1)
Adjusting the U.S. Trade Imbalance: A Black Hole in the World of Economy (1987) (1)
The Distribution of Physical Wealth (1975) (1)
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff.@@@Generating Inequality: Mechanisms of Distribution in the U. S. Economy. (1976) (1)
The competitive advantage of nations (1991) (1)
Chapter 2 – Falling Behind: The Productivity Problem (1998) (1)
Job Competition: The Labor Queue (1975) (1)
Deviant Observations in the Labor Market (1975) (1)
PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AND THE ELDERLY (1985) (1)
An International Keynesian Yank (1983) (1)
Book Review: Manpower: Schooling, Experience, and Earnings (1976) (0)
Response to Buchanan (1982) (0)
The Moral Equivalent of Defeat (1981) (2019) (0)
Unkept promises, unclear consequences: Major microeconomic adjustments ahead (1989) (0)
Long-Term Impacts Of The Federal Deficit (1984) (0)
Discrimination and Theories of Income Determination (1975) (0)
Book Review:Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property J. E. Meade (1967) (0)
American Mirage (1989) (0)
The great wheel: The world monetary system: Sidney Rolfe and James L. Burtle, (Harper & Row, New York, 1974) pp. 279, $9.5 (1974) (0)
Problems in the Area of Poverty: Discussion (1969) (0)
Medicine versus economics. (1985) (0)
Regional transformation and the service activities (2017) (0)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGIONAL POLICY ROUNDTABLES: PROSPECTS AND STRATEGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (1994) (0)
Race and Poverty: The Economics of Discrimination.@@@Poverty and Discrimination. (1971) (0)
The Moral Equivalent of Defeat (1981) (0)
Back Matter (1976) (0)
Is offshoring possible in Latin America?” (2004) (0)
8. Equity versus Efficiency in Law Enforcement (2019) (0)
How government can foster success in the new millennium. (1999) (0)
At Home: Hard Lessons in Carter Economics (1980) (0)
Free Market Fallacies (1993) (0)
Perspectives on Inequality. Proving the Absence of Positive Associations. (1973) (0)
Eight Imperatives for Research and Development : Technology Review (1988) (0)
1992--the end of the line for the current world economy (1988) (0)
Job Competition: The Job Distribution (1975) (0)
Is telecommunications truly revolutionary (2018) (0)
The Outcome of the Economic Game (1975) (0)
The Centennial Essay. (1991) (0)
A World Class American Economy (1984) (0)
Learning to say "no". (1986) (0)
The Truth about Supply-Side Economics@@@Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics (1984) (0)
THE U.S. ECONOMIC SYSTEM -- WHAT IS IT BECOMING? (1975) (0)
EVALUATING THE ANTIPOVERTY EFFORT SO FAR : A CONFERENCE AND A BOOK (2007) (0)
Economic conditions and trends in the region: potential strategies to encourage foreign direct investment (2004) (0)
15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2002 (2002) (0)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: WHERE IS OUR TAX STRUCTURE GOING AND WHERE SHOULD IT GO? (1982) (0)
THE ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC FINANCE (1975) (0)
The October 1987 Crash: A Worldwide Phenomenon (1993) (0)
W.A. Mackintosh Lecture 1984 (1984) (0)
Development Finance in Latin America: Basic Principles (1971) (0)
The Productivity Problem (2019) (0)
Maintaining Technological Leadership in a World Economy—1988 MRS Fall Meeting Plenary Address (1989) (0)
Like Father, Like Son (2003) (0)
The Management Challenge. Japanese Views.@@@Strategy and Structure of Japanese Enterprises. (1986) (0)
Why Political Scientists Aren't Public (2016) (0)
Choices for U.S. Why Our Trade Deficit Is More Worrisome Than Our Budget (1986) (0)
Migration, Media, Modus Vivendi ‐ Spring 2001 (2008) (0)
The Japanese Automobile Industry@@@The Management Challenge (1987) (0)
Economics of the energy crisis (1974) (0)

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