Month: November 2017

An American Woman Wins NYC Marathon for the First Time in 40 Years

 

Shalane Flanagan pic
Shalane Flanagan
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For more than two decades, Sharyn O’Halloran has worked as a professor at Columbia University in New York City. She serves the school as a George Blumenthal professor of political economy and a professor of international and public affairs. An avid runner, Sharyn O’Halloran was accepted to participate in the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon.

For the first time in four decades, an American woman was the winner of the New York City Marathon. With a time of two hours, 26 minutes, and 53 seconds, Shalane Flanagan topped the women’s field ahead of Mary Keitany, a Kenyan marathoner who won the race in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

The 36-year-old Flanagan was the second-place finisher in 2010, which was the last time she participated in the event. Prior to the 2017 NYC Marathon, Flanagan hadn’t run competitively in a marathon since she finished sixth place at the Rio Olympic Games.

Miki Gorman was the last American woman to win the New York City Marathon. She did so in 1976 and 1977.

Politics, Process, and American Trade Policy

Politics, Process, and American Trade Policy
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An instructor at Columbia University since 1993, Sharyn O’Halloran currently serves as a George Blumenthal professor of political economics and a professor of international and public affairs. In addition to her accomplishments as a university educator, Sharyn O’Halloran has written dozens of articles and multiple books, including Politics, Process, and American Trade Policy.

Published by the University of Michigan Press in 1994 as part of its Michigan Studies in International Political Economy series, Politics, Process, and American Trade Policy examines the formation and continuation of American trade policy through the lens of organizational economics and neo-institutionalism in order to highlight the weaknesses of conventional historical economic models, such as the pressure-group model and the presidential-ascendancy model. Offering new insights into both early and contemporary American trade policy, this book rejects scholarship that presents trade policy as disparate and ad hoc, instead offering a uniquely unified framework for thinking about the ways in which public and private institutions create and develop trade policy.