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At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 6, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the David Saul Landes, Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Landes, among the finest economic historians of his age, tackled the important question of why some nations are poor while others are rich.