Douglas W. Rae

Douglas Whiting Rae (born 1939) is Richard Ely Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Guggenheim fellow, a former Fellow of Stanford University's Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a winner of the Hallett Prize and the Hurfurth Prize, he served as Chief Administrative Officer of the City of New Haven, Connecticut in 1990-1991. He has contributed to the BBC, The New Republic, and the New York Times.

Significance of "Equalities"

Rae's most influential book is "Equalities", published in 1981. A noteworthy work on equality theory, "Equalities" compares and contrasts the ideas of a number of political theorists, including Immanuel Kant, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, and Vilfredo Pareto. His "City:Urbanism and its End" published in 2003 is a history of New Haven, Connecticut and puts forth an account of urbanism for American cities.

Sources

• http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/drae.html
• http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/profiles/rae.shtml
• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/nyregion/08crime.html
• http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=r
• http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/09/opinion/09bass.html
• http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3612778/Sen_EqualitiesBookReview.pdf?sequence=4

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