RICHARD-ECKAUS-Obituary

RICHARD ECKAUS

Brookline, Massachusetts

1926 - 2022

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ECKAUS, Richard "Dick" Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, emeritus, in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics, died on September 11, 2022, in Boston. He was 96 years old. Eckaus was known as a "complete" economist who straddled all styles of the...

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Richard Samuel Eckaus cared about people everywhere. He spent his life working to improve lives around the world. He was interested in people. He listened, he chatted, he asked questions, he cared. He was a humanitarian. He looked for ways a nation could change within its power to do so. His contributions to a country helped people prosper. And yet, except for a handful of people in each country, no one knew the name of this man working on their behalf. His wife Pat said he considered...

Dear Pat, I am so sorry for the passing of your beloved husband. I hope that the many good memories will ease the sting of your pain.

Dear Pat, I am so sorry to hear of the passing of your beloved husband. I hope that the many good memories will ease the sting of your pain.