FACULTY HONOR: Ashenfelter, Case elected to American Philosophical Society

By the Office of Communications on May 2, 2017, 3 p.m.

Orley Ashenfelter, the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, and Anne Case, the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, have been elected to the American Philosophical Society. They were among 32 humanists, scientists, social scientists and leaders in civic and cultural affairs selected this year for their extraordinary intellectual accomplishments and leadership.

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