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...early 1920s, the economist and social philosopher Frank Knight offered an easy answer (though admittedly with reference to market participation, not the problems of college life): “Man’s chief interest in life is after all to find life interesting.” An interesting life is an entertaining life, and no self-respecting audience is likely to want to watch any of ours...
...People have been a bit frustrated about lines of authority and so on,” said Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87, who is an economist. “Really what that was symptomatic of is that there was so much turmoil that no one ever knew what was happening...
...that cereal production will once again increase in 2008, and bring at least a modest reduction in food prices. "As always, if you take [all the world's] food and divide it by the world's population, there's more than enough for everyone," says Steve Wiggins, an agricultural economist at the U.K.-based think tank Overseas Development Institute, and author of a recent report, Rising food prices: a global crisis. It's just a question of how to get it to the people who need it most...
...impact on the planet in recent history? Here's a surprise: one of the world's most influential environmentalists isn't an environmentalist at all. Nor is he an activist, a conservationist, or even someone who seems to spend a lot of time in the wilderness. He's an economist. His name is Richard Sandor, and more than anyone else, he invented the idea of emissions trading - a financial technique of capping and trading pollutants - which may be our best hope for beating climate change...
...course, worst-case scenarios don't always come true. Anderson, the UBS economist, isn't overly pessimistic. But he sees China's export growth rate falling from about 25% a year to single digits by mid-2008. "2008 will likely be the year manufacturers [are] finally forced to take a general hit on profitability," he says. A soft landing for factories might even be beneficial for the country in the long term, because it would weed out inefficient operators and boost China's productivity. A period of "creative destruction" is an inevitable part of any business cycle. China's economic...