Yesterday (May 31, 2025) I learned that another of my professors, Stanley Fischer, passed away. Many cohorts of the graduate program in economics at M.I.T. learned their macroeconomics as well as advanced monetary theory from him. My personal debt to Stan is that I finally “got” an understanding and intuition of macroeconomics from his courses. He was a phenomenal lecturer and we can all look forward to the coming testimonies from the legions of thesis advisees. With this post the fine line drawing of the young Stanley Fischer seen above enters the internet record for the first time.
The 1973 caricature of Stanley Fischer was drawn by the University of Chicago graduate student in economics Roger Vaughan and published in his series Great Moments in Economics. Roger Vaughan’s monumental work “The School of Chicago” can be viewed in an earlier post. Biographical information about the artist can be found at that link as well.
Source: Harvard University Archives. Papers of Zvi Griliches. Box 129, Folder “Posters, ca 1960s-1970s”.
One reply on “Chicago. Caricature of Stanley Fischer by Roger Vaughan, 1973”
yes Stan Fischer was a fabulous teacher. I am so lucky I studied “Macro” with him at U o f Chicago around the time this drawing was created