Claudia Goldin | The detective of economics thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 19th century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle coined the moniker for the discipline of economics as “the dismal science” but then again, he never got to meet Michael Szenberg. With his irrepressible good cheer and upbeat, can-do attitude, this leading economist a frum Jew with Gerrer roots who serves as honorary chair of the economics and business departments at Touro’s Lander College of Arts & Sciences in Brooklyn is the very antithesis of dismal. He even recently coauthored a book with his longtime collaborator, Lall Ramrattan, that uses the dual lenses of Judaism and economics to explore one of his favorite topics: Happiness.