Richard levin yale biography

Richard C. Levin, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, was selected as the twenty-second president of Yale in 1993. Mr. Levin was born in San Francisco, California in 1947. He graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco, received his bachelor's degree in history from Stanford University in 1968, and studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University, where he earned a B.

Litt. degree. In 1974 he received his Ph.D. from Yale and that same year he was named to the Yale Faculty.

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A specialist in the economics of technological change, Mr. Levin has written extensively on such diverse subjects as the patent system, industrial research and development, and the effects of antitrust and public regulation on private industry.

In the mid 1980's he directed a major effort to gather evidence on the incentives for 130 manufacturing industries' investments in research and development. Throughout the 70's and 80's, his series of papers on the Interstate Commerce Com