I was born the younger of my parents’ two children, on October 15, 1944, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, in New York. Except for two years when I was five and six years old, I spent my formative years in Great Neck, a north shore Long Island suburb of New York City, where I benefited from material comforts, excellent schools, and abundant opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. My ...

For almost twelve years, David Hadden has with care and considerable patience edited The Ulster Medical Journal. During that period over four hundred papers have arrived on his desk in their various shapes and states ranging from the highly polished, nearly ready for the printer, to those in 'kit' form (minus a plan) requiring him to assemble them into a coherent whole. The ability to write in ...

In this issue of JET, we celebrate Dave Cass’s remarkable scientific career with two symposia: (1) “Economic Growth” organized by Daron Acemoglu, and (2) “General Equilibrium” organized by Yves Balasko and John Geanakoplos. Dividing the issue into two parts should not obscure the fact that Dave recognized only one economic science, one that includes growth, general equilibrium (GE), and more. D...

Washington-based environmental group, Conservation International. Primates are in peril from a range of human activities, of which the bushmeat trade in central Africa is particularly threatening, along with the logging of rainforests in Indonesia and South America, says the IUCN. A separate major report by the UN Environment Programme on the state of the world’s environment warns of the contin...