It is my honor and pleasure to introduce Professor Wald to this seminar. I’d like to thank Duncan and Kandice for the opportunity to make these brief remarks, and also thank President Kelly for giving myself and so many here the chance to hear Professor Wald’s provocative tone-setting presidential address at the ASA conference two […]

ASA from one perspective: Occupy Wall Street. Last Friday Jesse Schwartz and I attended the Imagining Class panel at ASA, organized by Joseph Entin and Kathy Newman. Andrew Ross, Tera W. Hunter, Shalini Shankar, and Judith Smith were also there. It was a packed room. I counted roughly 40 people seated and probably 15 along the back wall. […]