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      1. This is indeed sad news. Things have many causes, but I can say with confidence that without taking Prof. Weitzman’s class—the first “hard” economics course I ever took—I would not be an economist today. (A brief thread, 1/4) @GernotWagner/1166771512797515776
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      It was heavy and technical, but even now I remember that he always kept us thinking about connections to underlying questions of social welfare and global justice. A good lesson for all scholars and aspring scholars (that also helped make hard problem sets feel worthwhile). 2/4
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    He was the first prof I ever had who basically said: Class is for you to learn, not for me to teach, and not for grading. If students could reach consensus on changes to course assessments or logistics he’d make them. We did (iirc, @ProfEmilyOster coordinated this). He did. 3/4
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      I’ve thought occasionally and fondly of Prof. Weitzman over the years (not least when he got into a kind of shitty situation that made the news c. 2005). I’ve thought of him when I see what a mess we’ve gotten our environment into. I’m thinking of him and his family today. 4/4
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        My erstwhile carpool buddy @harish_guda noted on our ride this morning the impact of Weitzman’s sequential search models in his own field (Supply Chain Mgmt). We lost a giant. Here’s @GernotWagner, on MW’s academic breadth (among other things): gwagner.com/marty-weitzman-in-memoriam/ 5/4
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          Al Roth—Nobel laureate, longtime MW colleague at Harvard, and mensch—with a brief remembrance of Marty Weitzman marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2019/09/marty-weitzman-1942-2019.html
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