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Andrei Shleifer ’82, the economist embroiled in a fraud scandal that cost Harvard $26.5 million to settle, will return to teaching here this fall...
...outgoing University president is a close friend of Shleifer, and the article suggests that Summers shielded his fellow economist from disciplinary action by the University...
...nominate Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is an economist who has committed himself to the concept of economic development as a method of reducing poverty-related disease. His latest initiative, Breaking the Bottlenecks, aims to cut through the red tape that slows the creation and distribution of malaria-prevention and -treatment programs in 10 African countries...
...support immigrant rights. The problem, according to the Post, is that illegal immigrants lower working class wages. Democrats who go easy on “illegals” pose a direct threat to American low wage workers.The Post relies heavily on Harvard’s own George Borjas, an economist who has spent much time showing that immigrants lower the wages of American workers, claims current immigration trends will produce “an astonishing transfer of wealth from the poorest people in the country…to the richest.” Borjas’ findings have been challenged...
Gilmour interjects amusing tales of the inept legacy students who were in over their heads in the rigorous environment of Haileybury. Another interesting anecdote concerns Haileybury’s most famous professor, the economist Thomas Malthus, who memorably encountered several of his students on the way to chapel with “tankards of beer...