----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [From EH.News.] In Memoriam. Adam Klug Adam Klug was a brilliant young Israeli economic historian who recently passed away well before his prime. We at Rutgers were fortunate to have him with us for four years in the early 1990s. (He was a visitor in the International Finance Section at Princeton for two years and a visiting professor at Rutgers for two years). Adam's field of interest was financial history and he published several important articles on German Reparations and Sovereign Debt default in the 1930s, as well as an article on the Suez crisis of 1956. He collaborated with Michael Bordo on a project on the Sterling crisis of 1967 and Eugene White on leading indicators of the Great Depression in the US, with Doug Irwin on the political economy of Tariffs, and with others. These papers will be published in the future. What was so special about Adam was his intellectual curiosity, and his broad range of expertise. He kept coming up with the most interesting and arcane data and ingenious hypotheses on important issues. His signature in his years in New Jersey was a heavy green tweed sport jacket, white (sort of) shirt and nondescript tie, which he wore regardless of the season, and an old leather briefcase which was always overflowing with a good fifty pounds of tomes from the Princeton Library. We will miss him. Michael Bordo Hugh Rockoff Eugene White ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]