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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This economist has taken an active role in using scholarship to affect change. He is currently studying the sweatshop movement at Harvard and is working to make Election Day an official holiday so more people--particularly the poor--can go to the polls...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Richard B. Freeman | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Young black men with little education are finding increased success in today's job market, according to a study recently completed by Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman and economist William M. Rodgers III of the College of William and Mary...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Robin M. Wasserman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Rising Tide Lifts Black Job Market, Study Says | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

...came in for some of the stern criticism hurled at the IMF, which follows the Treasury Secretary's lead, as Asian officials complained that the IMF's austerity measures were aggravating the crisis. "The handling of the crisis was a disaster in the beginning," says Andy Xie, chief China economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Handoff | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...does very well, is protect Yeltsin. And his appointment more than anything is a sign that Yeltsin has now morphed from a man who wanted to change Russia into a man who simply wants to hold on to power. As his nation starves, Yeltsin reached not for an economist or a diplomat who might be able to help Russians figure a way forward. Instead he called on a security man. After its humiliation over the impeachment, the Duma may decide to save face by rejecting Stepashin. But it may be hard for them to summon up the organization and courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Survival of the Fittest | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Last week the PBS talk show To the Contrary broadcast results of a new study it had commissioned from a New York University economist: he claims that women now control a majority--51.3%--of U.S. household wealth. Other economists challenge the report's methodology, especially its apportioning of wealth evenly between husbands and wives. Yet even the critics believe women's influence over wealth is growing, if only because wives outlive their husbands by an average of seven years and usually inherit most of their assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of the Purse | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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