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| April 1999 Commencement features Thurow UM's 102nd Commencement will be held in Washington-Grizzly Stadium due to the renovation of the field house, which reopens later this year as the Adams Center. Thurow, a professor of management and economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 30 years, appears regularly on the national television program "The Nightly Business Report" and frequently writes economics columns for the Boston Globe and USA TODAY. He has written several books, including his most recent, "The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World." The book looks at the changing structure of the world economy and what it will take for individuals, firms and nations to be successful in the new economic game that is being developed at the end of the second millennium. At MIT Thurow focuses his work on international economics, public finance, macroeconomics and income-distribution economics. Born in Livingston, Thurow received his master's degree as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 1962 and his doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 1964. He taught at Harvard from 1966 to 1968 after a term as a staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. He has served on the editorial board of The New York Times, as a contributing editor for Newsweek and as a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists.
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