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...writers in the Standard distrust international institutions such as the U.N., favor a less-strict separation between church and state, and believe that lower taxes are needed to spur economic growth. But the views expressed in the magazine are certainly not monolithic. For instance, in a 1997 article, economist Irwin Stelzer writes that, to achieve “the long-held and very American ideal of equality of opportunity,” conservatives like himself might consider the possibility of imposing a 100 percent inheritance tax—at least for large estates...
Summers said last night that he was first introduced to New in 2001, shortly after arriving at Harvard, by economist Kenneth S. Rogoff, the Cabot professor of public policy, and his wife, Natasha Lance Rogoff...
Before becoming Harvard’s 27th president in 2001, Summers served as chief economist of the World Bank and Treasury secretary...
...world’s people who consume 86 percent of the world’s goods and services. (The poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent.) Our current lifestyle is simply not compatible with African development. To paraphrase Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the problem of poverty is not one of resources, but of their allocation. There needs to be a reallocation and prioritization of the world’s resources—including the resources that you and I control. Every dollar we spend on pet food, clothes, DVDs...
...root of this injustice is that Americans only feel compelled to respond to natural disasters, whereas poverty is a societal disaster. The American dream is so ingrained in our society that the majority of Americans believe that we live in a complete meritocracy. A study last year by the Economist, however, showed that the incomes of those in the bottom quintile of earners in America has increased by less than 7 percent since 1979, while the incomes of those in the top quintile has increased by 70 percent. This indicates that there are barriers to social mobility that cannot...