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Michael Albert
Economist, activist, speaker, writer
This article is about the economist. For the computer scientist, see Michael H. Albert. For the artist, see Michael Albert (artist).
Michael Albert (born April 8, 1947) is an American economist, speaker, writer, and political critic. Since the late 1970s, he has published on a variety of subjects. He has set up his own media outfits, magazines, and podcasts. He is known for helping to develop the socioeconomic theory of participatory economics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Albert was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York.[2] In 1965, Albert was studying physics at MIT. He objected to the US military's funding of the university. This, along with the civil rights movement, led Albert to become politically active.[3]: 39 [4] He became a member of Students for a Democratic Society and opposed the Vietnam War. He was expelled from MIT, in January 1970, for
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Ed Manning: An Unusual Bridge-Builder
The work of physician-scientists can seem daunting–forging a bridge that stretches from the medicine of today to the hope of healing that may be possible tomorrow. For Ed Manning, who graduates with an M.D.-Ph.D. from Einstein this May, the road to that bridge spanned nearly 6,000 miles, from New York to Iraq.
Ed Manning, Class of 2014A former major in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Manning led a rifle platoon during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Perhaps that's unusual preparation for someone who will soon begin a fellowship in internal medicine and pulmonary critical care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. But for Mr. Manning, the transition from the marinkårssoldater to bänk and bedside was a natural one.
During high school in Syracuse, NY, he discovered his love of mathematics and science, and went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and in Russian from the State University of New York at Albany. After traveling in the former So