The influential MIT economist and public intellectual Lester Thurow, whose work addressed the many consequences of an increasingly global economy, died on Friday at his home in Westport, Massachusetts. Thurow, who also served as dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, was 77 years old. Having focused on income distribution early in his scholarly career, Thurow broadened his interests over time and became a leading public voice examining many of the defining features of globalization, including the competitiveness of national economies at a time of industrial change, and the welfare of workers, including those affected by the shift of jobs around the world. In many years of engagement with the public and government officials — and in a series of bestselling books — Thurow advocated a di
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