Lester C Thurow

Lester Thurow has been a professor of management and economics at MIT for 30 years, beginning in 1968. He was dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1987 until 1993. A 1960 graduate of Williams College, Thurow received his M.A. in 1962 on a Rhodes Scholarship at Balliol College (Oxford) and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1964. He taught at Harvard from 1966 to 1968 after a term as a staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson's Council on Economic Advisers. In his formal academic work, he focuses on international economics, public finance, macroeconomics and income distribution economics. In addition, he writes for the general public in a number of American and international newspapers, and appears regularly on a television program -- "The Nightly Business Report." He has been featured twice on "60 Minutes" and has been on the cover of Atlantic magazine.