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Could the information economy help narrow the gap between the rich and the poor? That's the implication of a sweeping new study appearing in the journal Science. The research corrals data from 21 populations - from the pre-Industrial merchants of East Anglia to the Ache foragers of present-day Paraguay - in order to look at how wealth gets trapped within certain families...
Critics, take note: Tightly crafted prose and lofty moral sentiments may have their place, but what really matters at the end of the day is the number of times a text mentions camels. “The first thing a falsifier, a tourist, an Arab nationalist would do is have a surfeit of camels, caravans of camels, on every page,” writes Jorge Luis Borges in his essay “The Argentine Writer and Tradition.” In what is perhaps the greatest (the only?) assault on the dromedary in prose, Borges goes on to deride...
...full-year Ec 10 course—a viable lead-in to the class’ second semester. But the Economics Department, in an overwhelming vote that featured only two dissenters, elected not to count Social Analysis 72 for concentration credit, meaning that the course, to this day, fails to serve as a prerequisite for most high-level economics courses...
...Harvard financial policies does not absolve Harvard of its responsibility to provide insurance for itself and the community against the effects of stalled initiatives. Harvard’s interests are not incompatible with attempts to insulate the community from the effects of policies with no plan for a rainy day. Neighboring communities may receive some derivative benefit from Harvard’s prosperity because of their location, but they need not share in Harvard’s pain. Derrick Asiedu ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House...
Though his day in Boston was short, Obama still managed to create quite the stir. Suri, take note...