News

Community Safety Department Director To Resign Amid Tension With Cambridge Police Department

News

From Lab to Startup: Harvard’s Office of Technology Development Paves the Way for Research Commercialization

News

People’s Forum on Graduation Readiness Held After Vote to Eliminate MCAS

News

FAS Closes Barker Center Cafe, Citing Financial Strain

News

8 Takeaways From Harvard’s Task Force Reports

Crimson Connections: Andrei Shleifer ’82 and J. Bradford DeLong ’82

By Ryan N. Gajarawala, Andrew W. Liang, and Samuel W. Zwickel

As Weld Hall freshman roommates, Andrei Shliefer ’82 and J. Bradford DeLong ’82 spent evenings working through problem sets for Math 55 — among the most difficult undergraduate math courses in the country. Their collaborations soon turned to groundbreaking papers in behavioral finance and political economics. Now a Harvard economics professor, Shleifer has been awarded the coveted John Bates Clark Medal and is IDEAS’ top-ranked economist in the world. DeLong is an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and previously oversaw economic policy for the U.S. Treasury under President Clinton. Filmed October 7, 2020. Hosted by Andrew W. Liang and Samuel W. Zwickel. Edited by Ryan N. Gajarawala.

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.