XVII. 2002 IRRA LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Neil Chamberlain

     I am highly gratified by your conferring this honor. My pleasure would have been even greater if I could be here with you--my friends, colleagues, and well-wishers--to receive it in person.

     The satisfaction which it brings is in large part the feeling of being one of a long line of others who have made contributions to the intellectual interests for which we all stand, and of others who will make their contributions into an indefinite future. My deepest thanks for your granting me the feeling that I might be a part of that history.

     [Neil Chamberlain received a] Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1942. [He traveled] round trip from Yale to Columbia and back and from Columbia to Yale and back, with a chair at each institution. [He is the] author of 20 books, contributor to 14 others, editor or coeditor of 6, and author of numerous articles.

     [He served a] term or terms on editorial boards of American Economic Review and Management International, as director of the Program in Economic Development and Administration of the Ford Foundation, and on the board of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. He served as a member of the IRRA Executive Board from 1955 to 1958, and as president in 1967. [Chamberlain] retired from Columbia University in 1981.