I, too am saddened. He was my macro TA when I was a grad student and was a very kind and joyful person.
Ann ------------------------> > Message: 13 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:15:07 +0100 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Salih Neftci > To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > What a huge shame. His textbook on financial mathematics was fantastic. > > best > dd > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Julio Huato" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Pen-l] Salih Neftci >> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:32:48 -0400 >> >> >> I have learned that the Iraqi/Turkish economist Salih Neftci, who >> graduated from the University of Minnessota and taught econometrics, >> macroeconomics, and financial engineering at the CUNY Grad Center, the >> New School, and some European schools, passed away. He was >> hospitalized in Switzerland. >> >> He didn't identify himself as a "progressive economist" or the like. >> I'm posting the note here, because I once mentioned him here -- and/or >> on my blog -- and some people on PEN-L apparently knew him (Sabri, I >> think). For those who didn't know him, Salih was an excellent >> lecturer. I took all his classes at the CUNY Grad Center and the New >> School. And, full disclosure, he wrote great letters of >> recommendation on my behalf -- for which I'll remain ever grateful to >> his memory. >> _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
