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Concentration: He’s economics??it’s a general concentration and his books aren’t in any one specific field...
...Catherine L. Mann ’77, a career in economics??including positions with the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers—began with babysitting...
...timely way to appropriately aid Radcliffe in hurdling potential roadblocks to its emergence as an institute for advanced study and its full integration into the University system, as well as provide information about how other minority interests—whether they be ones of race, ethnicity or socio-economics??might fare at Fair Harvard...
...inherent in its study. The belief that economics is not political, that it is value-free is, I believe, a common misperception of economics that Harvard unfortunately perpetuates. The class that introduces almost half of the Harvard students to economics does not address the most fundamental part of economics??the values and beliefs that support its claims. Not only are the basic assumptions of mainstream economics in Social Analysis 10: Principles of Economics (Ec 10) not questioned, they are never even clearly articulated...
...transferring from Cornell, Huang felt Harvard’s smaller student body would encourage a more “intimate advising system,” but she has found the advising system “to be every bit as impersonal.” As a concentrator in economics??one of Harvard’s largest departments—Huang has learned to depend on word-of-mouth, friends and upperclass students. This get-it-yourself attitude stems from her advising at Cornell. “I was assigned a faculty and a student advisor. My faculty advisor...