Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis; Oxidizing and Reducing Agents Edited by Steven D. Burke (The University of Wisconsin at Madison) and Rick L. Danheiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY. 1999. xii + 550 pp. 21 × 37.5 cm. $115.00. ISBN 0-471-97926-0.

2000 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 1596-1596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Gandour
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Organic Synthesis ◽  
Reducing Agents ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Using Mammon for Righteousness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Marie Johnson
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Intellectual Achievement ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Chapter 5 explores what happened when women approached existing coeducational schools offering restricted gifts to benefit women. These donations either forced a school to open its doors to women or increased the number of women admitted by providing scholarships for women or erecting a women’s building or a women’s dormitory. Like the college founders, these donors believed that women were capable of the same intellectual achievement as men but found that many of America’s best universities resisted coeducation. The women in this chapter, including Mary Garrett, and Phoebe Hearst and the gifts they gave show how money could be wielded to force changes that would benefit women, in the form of access to education and professions formerly restricted to men. Moreover, coeducation at these schools, including Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley, was especially significant. If women were welcomed at these important institutions, they could demonstrate their intellectual and professional capabilities and equality with men.

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1273-1278
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Banking Regulation ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
New York University ◽  
Industrial Economics ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis

Matthew Richardson of New York University Stern School of Business reviews “Balancing the Banks: Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis” by Mathias Dewatripont, Jean-Charles Rochet, and Jean Tirole. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Three previously published papers explore what happened in the recent financial crisis and consider the lessons to be learned in order to avoid a repetition of the large-scale meltdown of financial markets, industrial recession, and public deficits. Papers discuss lessons from the crisis (Jean Tirole); the future of banking regulation (Jean-Charles Rochet); and the treatment of distressed banks (Mathias Dewatripont and Rochet). Dewatripoint is Professor of Economics at the Free University of Brussels, Annual Visiting Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Research Director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research. Rochet is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse I. Tirole is Chairman of the Foundation Jean-Jacques Laffont at the Toulouse School of Economics, Scientific Director of Toulouse's Industrial Economics Institute, and Annual Visiting Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Index.”

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