Transforming Economics: Theodore W. Schultz, 1902-1998 in Memoriam

In Memoriam Theodore J . Rivlin ( 1926 – 2006 )

It is, with heavy hearts, that we report that our friend and mentor, Theodore J. Rivlin, died on July 22, 2006, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, just weeks before his 80th birthday. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in his final years. Ted was an associate editor of Journal of Approximation Theory from its inception in 1968. Ted was born on September 11, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. He rec...

In memoriam: Theodore Leon Munsat, MD (1930-2013).

TheodoreLeonMunsat,MD,diedonNovember22, 2013, after a long illness that included a series of small strokes. Hewas 83 years old. Ted grew up in Vermont and considered it home throughout his life. He was buried in the town of Rutland. He left home to do undergraduate work in Michigan and then returned to Burlington formedical school at the University of Vermont. He trained in neurology at The Neu...

In Memoriam: Edsger W. Dijkstra

In Memoriam Harold W. Rossmoore (1925-2003): a personal view.

The 13th International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Symposium (IBBS) will be the first to be held without Prof. Harold W. Rossmoore. Beginning with the first symposium, in Southampton, UK in 1968, his presence has been felt at every single meeting. He even participated in a meeting, held in London, UK in 1965, that is considered to be the starting point for the International Biodeteriora...

The Approach of Institutional Economics (March 1998)

T THE TERM “new institutional economics” is in widespread use and is associated with a vast literature. Clearly, the temporal adjective in the adopted title of this broad set of postwar theories and approaches has been intended to demarcate the “new institutional economics” from the “old” institutional economics of Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and Wesley Mitchell. This earlier institutionali...