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Common discourse on globalization suffers from an impoverished understanding of the term by both proponents and critics of globalization, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya K. Sen told a packed house at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum last night...
Moynihan is the first non-economist to give the commencement speech since former Irish president Mary Robinson’s 1998 address. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya K. Sen and former Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin ’60 were the last three speakers selected...
This is not to argue against growth or a stagnating economy, and no, it is not to advocate communism. Instead, it is to remind ourselves why we seek growth in the first place—to better our lives. The Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist and moral philosopher Amartya Sen believes that we should replace our current definition of living standard based on income, with a living standard based on the freedom or capability to live a decent life, such as the freedom to own a home, raise a child, and to be educated. Such a change would be drastic...
...been called the “steward of America’s economy” by former White House Chief of Staff John D. Podesta. Rubin follows Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Nobel prize-winning scholar of the developing world’s economics, professor emeritus Amartya...
Rounding out a trio of economist speakers in recent years-following Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in 1999 and Amartya K. Sen, an emeritus Harvard economics professor, in 2000--Rubin, now chair of Citigroup, was selected by an alumni committee and University President Neil L. Rudenstine in April...