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James Heckman as a Law and Society Scholar: An Appreciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Peter Siegelman
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I want to thank the editors of Law and Social Inquiry for giving me the chance to convey my immense admiration—indeed, reverence would not be too strong a word—for James Heckman and his work, on the occasion of his being awarded the 2000 Nobel prize in economics. It's a great pleasure to be able publicly to acknowledge my personal and professional debts to Jim; but I've come to realize that it's also a great burden to have to say something worthy of the occasion and the person. Jim's own writing tends toward the terse rather than the expansive. In that spirit, the tersest thing I can say that adequately conveys the importance of his work is that I'm certain that people will still be reading and talking about both his methodological and substantive ideas 100 years from now.

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Essays in Honor of James Heckman, 2000 Nobel Laureate
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , Winter 2002 , pp. 11 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2002 

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