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Congratulations on acquiring an economist as Harvard's new president. At Princeton, we have had two consecutive economists as president. Here are items to watch...
...unlimited amounts to the party of their choice, provided that the party does not then earmark that money to promote specific candidates. Undoubtedly, the word "loophole" will be tossed around, and you will learn that soft money (called "the sort of thing only a lawyer could love" by the Economist) is the only way to circumvent current campaign donation laws...
...lower than they have been in the past. But when added up, the number of minutes spent on daily activities far exceeds the total number of minutes in a day. Not only is every second filled with activity, but each is occupied with the accomplishment of several actions simultaneously. Economist Juliet Schor claimed in her 1991 book The Overworked American that people have an extra month of work. Gleick makes the valid argument that this month of new work comes from our filling our newly acquired free time with more work. People have become victims of some "mania," using their...
When the members of the Harvard presidential search committee anointed former treasury secretary and world-renowned economist Larry Summers for the Harvard throne, they may not have realized the impact the decision could have for first-years in the College...
...vote unanimously for Summers. This slim mandate means a soured economy, and no tax cuts may prompt voters to turn against Bush in the polls for his inability to stop the market slide. Perhaps he'll call on Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein, another world-renowned economist who, like Summers, used to work in government but has since returned to the Academy. If Feldstein were to leave for Washington, there would be an opening for a new instructor for Social Analysis 10: Principles of Economics, lovingly called Ec 10 by the hoards of prospective economics concentrators who crowd...