[OPE] Leontief Prize Announcement

> Tufts Institute to Award Annual Economics
> Prize
>
> to Bina Agarwal and Daniel Kahneman
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> June 24, 2009
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>
> Download
> the PDF announcement at: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/about_us/leontief/2009LeontiefAnnouncement.pdf
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> Tufts University’s Global Development and
> Environment
> Institute announced today that it will award its annual Leontief Prize
> for
> Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Bina Agarwal of Delhi University
> in India and Daniel
> Kahneman
> of Princeton
> University. The award ceremony will take place in Spring 2010
> at Tufts
> University
> and will feature lectures by the prize winners.
>
>
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> The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE),
> which is jointly affiliated with Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and
> Diplomacy
> and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, inaugurated its economics
> award in
> 2000 in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist and Institute advisory
> board
> member Wassily Leontief, who had passed away the previous year. The Leontief Prize for Advancing the
> Frontiers of Economic Thought recognizes economists whose work, like
> that of
> the institute and Leontief himself, combines theoretical and empirical
> research
> that promotes a more comprehensive understanding of social and
> environmental
> processes. The inaugural prizes were
> awarded in 2000 to John Kenneth Galbraith and Nobel Prize winner
> Amartya
> Sen.
>
>
> Bina Agarwal’s contributions
> to broadening the frontiers of economic thought have been both
> theoretical and
> empirical, with a particular focus on the most disadvantaged. An
> economist with
> a keen interest in interdisciplinary and inter-country explorations,
> she has
> done pioneering work especially on women’s rights in land, and gender
> and
> environment governance. An original thinker and policy advocate, she
> brings to
> her work insights from both research and field experience. Her writings
> have
> influenced policy nationally and globally. Dr. Agarwal’s publications
> include
> eight books and numerous professional papers on subjects such as land,
> livelihoods and property rights; environment and development; the
> political
> economy of gender; poverty and inequality; law; and agriculture and
> technological change. Her multiple award-winning book: A Field of
> One's
> Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (Cambridge University
> Press,
> 1994) was acclaimed by the jury of the Edgar Graham prize as “a superb
> analysis” and a “lasting milestone” that would benefit a vast segment
> of the
> world's disadvantaged. She is a
> Professor
> of Economics at the Institute
> of Economic Growth, Delhi University.
> She has been President of the International Association for Feminist
> Economics,
> and was a founder member of the Indian Society for Ecological
> Economics. In
> 2008 the President of India awarded her the Padma Shri. She currently
> serves on
> the U.N. Committee for Development Policy and the Indian Prime
> Minister’s
> National Council for Land Reforms.
>
>
> “Bina
> Agarwal embodies the kind of theoretically rigorous, empirically
> grounded, and
> policy-oriented economics that the Leontief Prize was created to
> recognize,”
> said GDAE Co-Director Neva Goodwin. “Her contributions to both
> scholarship and
> policy on economic development, the environment, well-being, and gender
> have
> been an inspiration to GDAE for many years.”
>
>
> Daniel Kahneman was awarded the
> Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
> in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in the field of behavioral
> economics. Dr.
> Kahneman is a Senior Scholar at
> the
> Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He
> is also Professor of Psychology and Public
> Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow
> Wilson School,
> the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton
> University, and a fellow of
> the Center
> for Rationality at the Hebrew
> University in Jerusalem.
>
>
>
> “Our
> Institute’s work has been much influenced, and has greatly benefited,
> by the
> ways in which Dr. Kahneman has expanded the frontiers and crossed the
> boundaries between economics and other disciplines,” said GDAE
> Co-Director Neva
> Goodwin. “As we watch the current economic crisis unfold, we look
> forward to
> finding ways for the field of economics to increasingly incorporate the
> realistic complexity Dr. Kahneman has added to the economic
> understanding of human
> motivations and rationality.”
>
>
> The
> Global Development And Environment Institute was founded in 1993 with
> the goal
> of promoting a better understanding of how societies can pursue their
> economic
> and community goals in an environmentally and socially sustainable
> manner. The Institute develops textbooks and
> course
> materials that incorporate a broad understanding of social, financial
> and
> environmental sustainability. The
> Institute also carries out policy-relevant research on globalization,
> climate
> change, and the role of the market in environmental policy.
>
>
> In
> addition to Amartya Sen and John Kenneth Galbraith, GDAE has awarded
> the Leontief
> Prize to Paul Streeten, Herman Daly, Alice Amsden, Dani Rodrik, Nancy
> Folbre,
> Robert Frank, Richard Nelson, Ha-Joon Chang, Samuel Bowles, Juliet
> Schor, Jomo Kwame
> Sundaram, Stephen DeCanio, José Antonio Ocampo, and Robert Wade.
>
>
>
> The awards ceremony and Leontief Prize lectures will take
> place on Tufts
> University’s
> Medford Campus in Spring
> 2010.
>
>
>
> Read
> more about the Leontief Prize on the GDAE web site at: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/about_us/leontief.html
>
> Learn more about GDAE on the web: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/
>
>
>
> For further
> information,
> please contact:
>
> Tim Wise, tim.wise@tufts.edu
>
> 617-627-3530
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Received on Fri Jun 26 13:21:26 2009