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Jul 23 2007 12:00am EDT

GMU's Other Star Professor Leaves

To lose one star economics professor to a minor-league competitor could be considered a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. And it turns out that Nobel laureate Vernon Smith isn't the only GMU economics professor to be leaving the department. According to Thomas Heath in the Washington Post today, Richard Florida is on his way out too:

Economist and author Richard Florida, who became a faculty star at George Mason University for his pioneering work on "the creative class," has left the Fairfax County university for a post at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Whither GMU's economics department now?

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