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The level of liquor consumption often calls for some precautionary measures to remind revelers of the dangers of drunken driving. Two trailers from the Hennepin County Alcohol Safety Project offer breath tests to volunteers who want to know their intoxication levels. The police administer the program and drive the vans...
The Economics Department's December decision not to grant Bowles tenure is no reflection on his capabilities, but only demonstrates the unwillingness of senior Faculty members to accept a new approach which questions classical assumptions.
SAM BOWLES and Herb Gintis will be leaving Harvard next year, and that will be Harvard's loss. The two, widely acknowledged to be among the most prominent practitioners of the radical approach to economics, will be going to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Unlike Harvard, UMass has decided...
3) Educational achievement is the best known predictor of occupational standing, even according to Messrs. Bowles and Gintis (with whom I disagree on other matters). Moreover, I.Q. is the best known predictor of educational achievement. Finally, genetic factors are the main known determiners of I.Q. That is the chain of...
In a recent article, however, Bowles and Gintis "partialed out" the effects of these three factors on economic success. While class background and education strongly predicted economic success, IQ alone contributed almost nothing to success.