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...Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is visiting with Harvard’s economists to explain his decision to move forward with the transplantation of the Fine Arts Library into Littauer, a project that will cost the University at least $11.5 million and forestall economists?? desired renovations of the aging building for at least a decade...
...students with the opportunity to learn the basics of economics, while allowing them to pursue their main interests in a different concentration, according to Professor of Economics James H. Stock, the department chair. “We have kept the secondary concentration simple and—not surprisingly for economists??have tried to allow considerable freedom of choice,” Stock wrote in an e-mail. In the fall, the department polled students in Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” (Ec 10) on their thoughts about primary and secondary concentrations...
...this day, the Hoxby-Rothstein quarrel—deemed unprecedented by some economists??continues to be a topic of water-cooler conversation in academic circles and on Internet blogs...
...academic seemed to augur a marked corporatization of the Corporation. But Summers was taking the board in a slightly more specific direction. His appointees were pure economists by training, men most likely to concur with his empirical approach to university governance. And perhaps more importantly, the three economists??Summers, Rubin, and Reischauer, stewards of the golden era of the Clinton economy—were all pals. It would be far more difficult for the president to lose a confidence vote of his friends...
He’s not the only one. “Freakonomics” has catapulted to number two on the New York Times bestseller list. Levitt joins a rising tide of economists??from Columbia’s Jeffrey D. Sachs ’75 to MIT’s Paul Krugman—who are making their “dismal science” accessible to psych concentrators and pre-meds like...