Background
Courant, Paul Noah was born on January 5, 1948 in Ithaca, New York, United States. Son of Ernest David and Sara (Paul) Courant.
economist educator university librarian
Courant, Paul Noah was born on January 5, 1948 in Ithaca, New York, United States. Son of Ernest David and Sara (Paul) Courant.
Courant received his Bachelor in History from Swarthmore College in 1968. An Master of Arts in Economics from Princeton University in 1973. And a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Princeton University in 1974.
Before attending graduate school, Courant served as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution. In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University.
While Provost, he negotiated a contract with Google to allow them to digitize the entire contents of Michigan"s library for their Google Library Project now known as Google Book Search.
He served as the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries from 2007 to 2013. Courant has authored half a dozen books and over seventy papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems
ARTstor Board of Trustees Center for Research Libraries Board of Directors Council on Library and Information Resources Board of Directors Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Board of Directors His remarks joined an ongoing debate about the project, specifically with regard to the role of libraries in large scale digitization efforts. Courant, Courant.
In November 2007, Courant started a blog in which he defended the University of Michigan"s participation in the Google Library Project.
Board directors Center Watershed and Community Health, Eugene, Oregon, 1997—2008, Council Library. & Information Resources, since 2009, Council Research Libraries, since 2009. Member of National Tax Association, Association Public Policy Analysis and Management (member policy council 1994-1998), American Economic Association.
Married Katherine Olive Johnson, September 21, 1969 (dissolved 1984). Children: Ernest Mendel, Noah Albert. Married Marta Anne Manildi, January 30, 1988.
1 child Samuel Robinson Manildi.