Word: friedmanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been only 48.3 percent. This is well below France (67.3 percent), Spain (77 percent), and even Morocco (57.6 percent). (China hasn’t had comparable elections.) Americans in this age group, aptly dubbed “Generation Quiet” by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, vote less than any other age group in the States. According to the web site civicyouth.org, in the 2006 midterm elections, while 52 percent of the adults 30 and over voted, only 22 percent of voters age 18 to 29 did. Now that’s something to be embarrassed about...
It’s no secret that this reporter has a crush on Thomas L. Friedman. Last year, I assessed the 2006 literary corpus of everyone’s favorite New York Times columnist and part-time economic cheerleader. And now, it’s time to look at his most notable themes and motifs of 2007—a year that was actually pretty depressing for Friedman-watchers! Without further ado… (5) Crushing Pessimism! Whoa, this one came out of nowhere! Granted, it didn’t pervade all of his columns—indeed, he remains...
...been the most thrilling part of the job.” Skocpol’s colleagues greeted her words with a standing ovation. GALBRAITH VISIT Kitty, the wife of recently deceased academic giant John Kenneth Galbraith, visited University Hall for a tribute to her husband. Economist Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 praised the Galbraiths, who married 70 years ago, for the “glittering intellectual salon” that was their Francis Street home. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs...
...children are flirting with middle age without much to show for it. Wendy is an unproduced playwright prone to bad fantasies (health) and good ones (she imagines she's won a Guggenheim fellowship). She's having an affair with a remarkably agreeable married man (the excellent Peter Friedman) that's not going anywhere, and she has an obscure desire to make up for past hostilities by placing her old man in a fancy nursing home. As her brother Jon points out, the patient really won't be able to discern the difference between that and more affordable accommodations. Jon, however...
...rate constant—was awarded a $25,000 prize from the Moody’s Foundation. “I want to stress how absolutely delighted everyone in the economics department is with the incredibly strong performance of our students,” said economics professor Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, the team’s faculty advisor. The Harvard Fed team, which is made up of captain Troy C. Murrell ’09, Colin J. Motley ’10, Akeel Rangwala ’11, William C. Schaub ’11, and Scott...