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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to |
| 3 | | learn of the death of Werner Baer, who passed away on March 31, |
| 4 | | 2016 at the age of 85; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Werner Baer was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany |
| 6 | | in 1931; his family emigrated from Switzerland to New York |
| 7 | | shortly after World War II; he received his bachelor's degree |
| 8 | | from Queen's College in 1953, and a master's and a Ph.D.
from |
| 9 | | Harvard University in 1955 and 1958 respectively; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, Werner Baer was the Jorge Paulo Lemann |
| 11 | | Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of |
| 12 | | Illinois, where he served for more than 40 years from 1974 to |
| 13 | | 2016; prior to that, he was a teacher at Yale (1961-65) and |
| 14 | | Vanderbilt (1965-74); he served as a program advisor for the |
| 15 | | Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro from 1967 to
1976; he also |
| 16 | | served as a visiting lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic |
| 17 | | University of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil and the New University of |
| 18 | | Lisbon, Portugal; and
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| 19 | | WHEREAS, Werner Baer influenced generations of students |
| 20 | | and was a driving force behind Latin American Studies at the |
| 21 | | University of Illinois; his research was centered on Latin |
| 22 | | America's industrialization and economic development, |
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| 1 | | especially
of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) and |
| 2 | | Brazil; and
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| 3 | | WHEREAS, Werner Baer had an outstanding record of scholarly |
| 4 | | achievement, including books Industrialization
and Economic |
| 5 | | Development in Brazil (1965), The Development of the Brazilian |
| 6 | | Steel Industry (1970),
The Brazilian Economy: Its Growth and |
| 7 | | Development (1979), now in its sixth edition, as well as a
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| 8 | | lengthy stream of articles on a diverse range of economic and |
| 9 | | policy issues; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, Werner Baer served on the editorial boards of the |
| 11 | | Luse-Brazilian Review, the Emerging Markets Review,
Economia |
| 12 | | Aplicada, the Latin American Business Review, Revista |
| 13 | | Latinoamericana de Historica Economica y
Social, Revista |
| 14 | | Paraguaya de Estudios Sociologicos, the Latin American |
| 15 | | Research Review, and World
Development; and
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| 16 | | WHEREAS, Werner Baer is survived by his sister, Marianne |
| 17 | | (Peter) Kilby, and his nieces and nephews, Damian, Christopher, |
| 18 | | and Karen; therefore, be it
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| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL |
| 20 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of |
| 21 | | Werner Baer, and extend our sincere condolences to his family, |
| 22 | | friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it further
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