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...Economist: “One American diplomat has given warning that a Mexican No could ‘stir up feelings’ against Mexicans in the United States. He draws comparisons with the Japanese-Americans who were interned after 1941, and wonders whether Mexico ‘wants to stir the fires of jingoism during...
Here are the two passages in question, one from the March 1 issue of The Economist, the other from Krugman...
...Midwest may produce cars and steel,” Bacow, an economist, said. “Here in Boston, we produce brains and new ideas. We attract some of the best and brightest minds in the world...
...entrepreneurship of the poor has produced assets in the “underground economy” worth over $9 trillion. But the poor are prevented from entering the legal realm by bureaucratic runaround. To document the extent of the challenges, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto describes in The Mystery of Capital how he tried to obtain legal permits to build a small house and license one sewing machine for commercial...
Moreover, when Ec 10 does approach both the mainstream economic model and contemporary issues, it does so narrowly. When Ec 10 presents the mainstream economic model, it often glosses over the assumptions on which the model is founded. No economist will debate the fact that mainstream economics is based on a set of core assumptions, such as the belief that you are always better off with more and that people always work in their rational self-interest. Yet Ec 10 does not ask students to engage these beliefs critically. Marglin’s course would encourage students to examine these...