A Tribute to Bill Kruskal

A Personal Tribute to Bill Lawvere

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Lawvere’s thesis on algebraic theories and of the far-reaching idea of algebraic structure as a functor adjoint to semantics. Around the time of this important event, Lawvere was also thinking about several other questions in category theory, motivated by his manifold interests from logic to physics, passing through algebra. In fact, so much so, that it w...

Unfinished Business in the Macroeconomics of Low Inflation: A Tribute to George and Bill by Bill and George

Unfinished Business in the Macroeconomics of Low Inflation: a Tribute to George and Bill by Bill and George

1 The retirement of George Perry and Bill Brainard gives us an opportunity to say publicly what we have often said privately: Brookings Papers is an important national institution. It is important because it has set the right tone for US macro policy. George and Bill are both Keynesians, not just in the narrow tradition of IS-LM models with Phillips Curves, but also in their broader methodologi...

A Tribute to Late Professor Mahlagha Ghorbanli

This edition of IJPP celebrates ten years of steady publication of Iranian Journal of Plant Physiology. The story of IJPP is that of a journey that started from a local forum where the researchers and scholars mainly from the Islamic Azad University could share findings of their studies, gradually developing into an international peer-reviewed jour...

Viruses and cancer, cats and cattle: a tribute to Bill Jarrett.