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Hoover Institution Newsletter Fall 2005 HOOVER INSTITUTION Newsletter Fall 2005 SENIOR FELLOW KEVIN M. MURPHY NAMED MACARTHUR FELLOW oover Institution senior fellow HKevin M. Murphy was named one of 25 MacArthur Fellows for 2005 s by the John D. and Catherine T. e c i v r MacArthur Foundation on September e S t r 20. A l a u s He also is the George J. Stigler Dis- i V : t tinguished Service Professor at the Uni- i d e r versity of Chicago’s Graduate School of c o t o Business. h p Murphy is a wide-ranging economist Russian minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov (left) and Hoover distinguished with an aptitude for applying careful fellow George P. Shultz examine materials on international affairs before the empirical analyses within rigorous the- September 20 dinner. oretical frameworks to economic ques- tions of immense social import. Early in his career, Murphy identified how RUSSIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CITES trends in PARTNERSHIP, SHARED CHALLENGES OF RUSSIA wage in- AND UNITED STATES IN TALK equality ussian minister of foreign affairs lenges is only possible through collec- reflect un- tive efforts of the entire world commu- n Sergey Lavrov lauded the promis- o R i derlying t a ing partnership between his country nity.” d n changes in u o and the United States when he spoke at Foreign Minister Lavrov was intro- F r demand for u h a dinner at the Hoover Institution on duced by George P. Shultz, former U.S. t r labor. These A c continued on page 13 a September 20. M studies not y s “Moscow and Washington are tied e • INSIDE • t r only consid- u o together by so much,” Lavrov said. C ered such DISTINGUISHED VISITING FELLOW Kevin M. Murphy “We both have a special responsibility variables as DIANE RAVITCH HONORED for the future of the world. This part- work experience, education, race, and WITH TWO AWARDS . 3 nership needs to move now to positive gender but also highlighted the impor- ™ action. Of immediate concern is inter- UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE ’S FINAL tance of within-group wage variability national terrorism, drug trafficking, BOW CREATES TREASURE TROVE in understanding labor economics. FOR SCHOLARS . 6 organized crime. It makes no sense to Murphy also considered the phenom- try to respond to these threats and HOOVER'S NOBEL LAUREATES enon of addiction from an economic challenges on a unilateral basis. An ef- DISCUSS CURRENT ECONOMIC CHALLENGES . 11 continued on page 10 fective response to threats and chal- at www.hoover.org to see What's New, a guide to the very latest news, Go online with HOOVER features, and events of the Hoover Institution, updated daily. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS PRESENTS 2005 FELLOWS’ ERNST POSNER AWARD TO ELENA DANIELSON he Society of American Archivists’ 2005 Fellows’ Ernst tution and director of its TPosner Award was presented to the Hoover Institution’s library and archives, retiring Elena Danielson for her article in the most recent volume of from that post on September 2 The American Archivist. (see below), received the award The award, established in 1982 by the Fellows of the for her essay “Privacy Rights Society of American Archivists (SAA) and named for former and the Rights of Political SAA president Ernst Posner, recognizes an outstanding essay Victims: Implications of the dealing with some facet of archival administration, history, German Experience” in volume theory, and/or methodology published in SAA’s semiannual 67 of The American Archivist. Elena Danielson journal. Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists is The award was presented to Danielson on August 19, North America’s oldest and largest national archival profes- during SAA’s 69th annual meeting in New Orleans. sional association. More information is available at Danielson, who was associate director of the Hoover Insti- www.archivists.org. LENA ANIELSON RETIRES AS “Privacy Rights and the Rights of Political Victims: Implica- E D tions of the German Experience” in the most recent volume, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR number 67, of The American Archivist. (See above.) OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES She also received many other important awards for out- standing work in her field. In 2004, Danielson was awarded AFTER 27 YEARS the National Order of Merit (rank of commander) of lena S. Danielson, whose distinguished career with the Romania for her “important role in the preservation and EHoover Institution spanned 27 years and who was development of the extensive Romanian collections of the inspired to become an archivist at the age of 20, retired as Hoover Archives, for her special support to Romanian associate director of the Hoover Institution and director of researchers, and for donating copies of I. G. Duca’s and the Hoover Library and Archives on September 2. Nicolae Titulescu’s archival collections to Romanian cultural “I had hoped, when I was 20, to retreat from the real institutions.” world and into the archival world to study the lives and In 2001, she received the Laurel Award of the Polish Prime works of the hopeless romantics of history,” Danielson told Minister for her work with the Polish State Archives. Her friends and coworkers who gathered on August 31 to wish research has been supported by Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, her well. “However, I found myself on the cutting edge of and Whiting Fellowships. She is a member of Alpha chapter history, not once but twice, here at Hoover,” she said refer- of Phi Beta Kappa. ring to the political changes that swept Eastern Europe Danielson joined the internationally renowned Hoover beginning in 1989 and the current political ferment in Institution Archives in 1978, working in all areas of the Taiwan. organization: first in technical services, then reference, out- On September 2, Danielson’s new title became archivist reach, collection development, and then management. emerita. She will now begin pursuing her own research, After serving as acting archivist for one year, 1996–97, she focused on archives theory, building on her nearly three was named archivist on September 1, 1997. She was made decades of hands-on experience. head of both the library and archives on September 1, 2001, Under her direction, the archives at Hoover grew and were and then associate director of the Hoover Institution on augmented with collections that include correspondence of January 1, 2002. the Romanov family, the papers of poet and novelist Boris Before her Hoover appointment, Danielson was an assis- Pasternak, the papers of Soviet literary critic, dissident, and tant professor at Santa Clara University and prior to that political prisoner Andrei Siniavskii, materials of Chiang Kai- held a teaching fellowship at Stanford University. Danielson shek and T. V. Soong in the T. V. Soong collection, and the holds a Ph.D. and an A.M. degree in German studies from papers of German steel industry executive Dieter Spethmann Stanford and a master’s degree in library science and an on the process of European unification. undergraduate degree from the University of California, She recently was awarded the Society of American Berkeley. Archivists’ 2005 Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award for her article 2 DIANE RAVITCH RECEIVES 2004 Ravitch is a historian of edu- cation and research professor of UNCOMMON BOOK AWARD FOR education at New York Univer- THE LANGUAGE POLICE sity. In addition to her distin- guished visiting fellowship and he Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What membership in the Koret Task TStudents Learn, written by Hoover distinguished visiting Force at Hoover, she is a non- fellow Diane Ravitch, was named by the Hoover Institution as resident senior fellow at the the winner of its 2004 Uncommon Book Award. Brookings Institution in Wash- The award was announced by Hoover Institution director ington, D.C. She was assistant John Raisian on September 8 during a meeting of the Koret secretary in charge of research Task Force on K–12 Education, of which Ravitch is also a in the U.S. Department of Edu- Diane Ravitch member. cation in the administration of In The Language Police (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), Ravitch President George H. W. Bush and was appointed to the Na- maintains that America’s students are compelled to read tional Assessment Governing Board by President Bill Clinton. insipid texts that have been censored and bowdlerized, issued The author of seven previous books on education, including by publishers who willingly cut controversial material from the critically acclaimed Left Back: A Century of Battles over their books—a case of the bland leading the bland. School Reform, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Language Police is the first full-scale exposé of this cul- The W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Un- tural and educational scandal written by a leading historian. common Book Award is presented annually to an author affil- It documents the existence of an elaborate and well-estab- iated with the Hoover Institution whose work is selected by a lished protocol of beneficent censorship, quietly endorsed and panel of Hoover fellows. The award is given for a published implemented by test makers and textbook publishers, states, book or other significant work on a public policy issue that, and the federal government. Ravitch offers a powerful politi- in the panel’s determination, meets the highest standards of cal and economic analysis of the causes of censorship. Her scholarship at the Hoover Institution. practical and sensible solutions for ending it will improve the The $10,000 honorarium that accompanies the Uncommon quality of books for students as well as liberating publishers, Book Award is underwritten by a gift from Hoover Institution state boards of education, and schools from the grip of pres- senior fellow Rita Ricardo-Campbell and the late director sure groups.
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