Life
He was born in Russia and emigrated to Rochester, New York, as a teenager in 1976, where he attended an inner-city school and learned English from episodes of Charlie's Angels. He then studied economics, obtaining his B.A. from Harvard University in 1982 and Ph.D. from MIT in 1986. As a freshman at Harvard, Shleifer took Math 55 with Brad DeLong; he has said that the course made him realize he was not destined to be a mathematician, but the experience gave him a future co-author. Shleifer also met his mentor and professor Lawrence Summers during Shleifer’s undergraduate education at Harvard. The two went on to be “co-authors, joint grant recipients and faculty colleagues.” Summers resigned from his position as President of Harvard University in 2006 in part due to concerns that his relationship with Andrei Shleifer constituted a financial conflict of interest.
He has held a post in the Department of Economics at Harvard University since 1991 and was, from 2001 through 2006, the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Economics.
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