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...Zander” N. Li ’08. So, the committee rejected the longstanding class. But Mankiw would not take no for an answer. He resisted the committee’s suggestions to tweak Ec10, either by giving it more of a focus on current events or historical context to fit the “United States in the World” category, or more mathematical rigor in order to make it fall under “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning,” according to Li. Although Mankiw declined an interview request for this article, he wrote...
...such as extroversion have been extensively examined by researchers, but with poor explanatory results. Tests have shown there is no leadership gene. While studies might find a certain trait to be significant, there always seems to be considerable evidence that fails to confirm that trait’s importance. Context is often more important than traits. The athletic child who is the natural leader on the playground may lose that dominant position when the group returns to a well structured classroom. For example, in January 1940, Winston Churchill was regarded as a failed politician, but after the British defeat...
...hedge funds, for instance, have always relied on a global view of economic trends rather than heavily statistical data analysis. And “common sense” also applies to deciding which data points are relevant in any given scenario, making it relevant even in a quantitative modeling context.“Sophisticated analysts will combine many different tools—one part intuition, one part historical data, and one part mathematical modeling—to come up with good decisions,” Laibson says.In practice, though, moving entirely to the “common sense?...
...Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers. This context is undeniably one of mass suffering, created largely by Israel but with the active complicity of the international community, especially the U.S. and European Union, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank...
...reconstruction to which Obama referred will be possible. There is no question that people must be helped immediately. Programs aimed at alleviating suffering and reinstating some semblance of normalcy are ongoing, but at a scale shaped entirely by the extreme limitations on the availability of goods. In this context of repressive occupation and heightened restriction, what does it mean to reconstruct Gaza? How is it possible under such conditions to empower people and build sustainable and resilient institutions able to withstand expected external shocks? Without an immediate end to Israel’s blockade and the resumption of trade...