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- Title:
- A. Michael Spence : An Oral History
- Author:
- Spence, Michael, 1943- and Marine-Street, Natalie J.
- Corporate Author:
- Stanford Historical Society
- Description:
Mike Spence, the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean, Emeritus, at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, shares memories of his time at Stanford as a professor in the Department of Economics in the 1970s and as dean of the school from 1990 to 1999. He begins by describing his upbringing in Canada, his love of hockey, and his path to a liberal arts education at Princeton. He recalls his time as a Rhodes Scholar and his PhD studies at Harvard, including working with Tom Schelling, Richard Zeckhauser, and Kenneth Arrow. He describes his research on signaling and markets, product differentiation, and economic growth; his approach to teaching; and the circumstances that led him to move into senior administra
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My Father: A Reminiscence at 30 Years
My father’s birthday was November 1st. He died at 67, 30 years ago. But he has not faded in my heart and soul. He died of leukemia and lung cancer. He smoked a couple of packs of unfiltered Camels per day from 12 on. We’d stop on our long road trips so he could empty the ashtray. Like living under an airport flight path, we regarded cigarette smoke in the car, in the house, in a restaurant, and even on a plane as normal. When he was dying in our home in western North Dakota, one of his friends said, “Chuck, do you regret now that you smoked all of your life?” (Was this a friend or a purveyor of righteousness?) My father said, “I’ve enjoyed every cigarette I ever smoked, and I’m looking forward to as many more cigarettes as I will live to light up.”
My biggest regret is that my daughter Catherine did not get to know him. He would have adored her. They met once, but she was just 11 inches long.
He was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. His f
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- Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:918,000. Panel title. Insets: Mesabi Range -- Cook County, northeastern Minnesota -- St. Paul-Minneapolis and vicinity. Inset photos on verso: Minnesota prize winners -- A Minnesota creamery -- A Minnesota farm. Includes indexes of counties, Indian reservations, lakes, rivers, cities, villages, and sta...
- Creator:
- Minnesota State Board of Immigration; McGill-Warner Co.
- Created:
- 1920
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
- Page Count:
- 2
- Last Updated:
- 2021-03-24
- Creator:
- McGill-Warner Co
- Created:
- 1923
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
- Page Count:
- 2
- Last Updated:
- 2021-03-24
- Creator:
- McGill-Warner Co
- Created:
- 1925
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
- Page Count:
- 2
- Last Updated:
- 2021-03-24