Fall 1999

Laurence Seidman, professor of economics, has been named the third Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business. The professorship aims to encourage and recognize research leadership in business administration and related fields and faculty contributions to graduate education of future business professionals.

The criteria for this prestigious honor include exceptional accomplishment in the area of scholarship, a commitment to the MBA program and the desire to continue productive scholarly research and commitment to MBA education. Seidman's impressive record of scholarly accomplishments includes a prolific record of publication in top journals and presentations of his research on tax policy to a wide variety of audiences.

Indeed, his work has achieved national acclaim and has been praised in letters of support from Nobel laureate Robert Solow, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Sommers and former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers Martin Feldstein.

In addition to his numerous journal articles, he is the author of several books. These include Funding Social Security: A Strategic Alternative (1999), Economic Parables and Policies (1998), The USA Tax: A Progressive Consumption Tax (1997), The Earned Income Tax Credit--Anti-Poverty Effectiveness and Labor Market Effects (with Saul D. Hoffman, 1990), Saving for America's Economic Future: Parables and Policies (1990) and Macroeconomics (1987).

The other Tyler Professors are Howard Garland, chairperson of the Department of Business Administration, and Kenneth Lewis, professor of economics.