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Nearly 200 students sign a petition urging the creation of an alternative class to Social Analysis 10, or “Ec-10,” the introduction to economics course taught by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein. Students assert that Ec 10, which is required of all economic concentrators, has a conservative bias. The students support the effort of Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin to create an alternative introductory economics class...
Daniel A. Michalow ’03 opposed the plan to create a course that would substitute for the first semester of Ec 10 and was involved in the counter-petition. Though he said he feels Feldstein does a good job of balancing the concepts presented in his course, he does not oppose Marglin’s new class...
...will be delighted to see Ken Rogoff back at Harvard,” said Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61. “Rogoff is a first-rate economist and now will have the extra insights and knowledge that come from spending time in a key policy position...
...will make our department even stronger to have him back,” Feldstein said...
Rogoff said that Feldstein and University President Lawrence H. Summers both gave him advice on navigating the world of Washington...