Word: ec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the public's protectionism is the result of false consciousness. We all learned in Ec 10 that free trade is good. But in American politics, the majority is always right, whether or not Martin Feldstein agrees. No prepared one-line zingers, no talking heads on cable TV, can alter that...
Then, there was an explosive growth of email users at Harvard last year--in part because students could obtain accounts by registering electronically and in part because many students, probably after taking Ec 10, realized that it really made more economic sense to talk to their friends in Little Rock via e-mail than over the phone...
...review some basic economics (if you've taken Ec 10, keep reading, because I don't think they taught us any of this). If a country wants to be prosperous it must produce goods and services that people want. In the short run, it can produce only for its own market, but in the long run the country must export its production to other countries if it wants to increase its standard of living. Exporting brings new money into the country, which allows the nation's companies to build more and better products, which will increase the wages it pays...
Last year's most popular course, Social Analysis 10 or "Ec 10," dropped to second this year, although its enrollment increased...
...Ec 10, which is taught by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, enrolled 856 students this year, compared to 764 last year...