Word: globalization
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...these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership that denied the role of HIV in causing AIDS; similarly, the World...
...specifics behind Ec10’s approval.Since Gen Ed lacks a clear category for economics, economists have met the curriculum with indifference or hostility.“I don’t see how you can possibly evaluate different things without knowing some microeconomics that’s global or national,” says Economics Professor Ariel Pakes. “We should be producing intelligent citizens.”Although the department is Harvard’s largest in terms of concentrators, only one Economics course in Gen Ed so far was designed specifically for the new curriculum.Like...
...Above all, global health and energy and environment are critical areas for the education of our undergraduates and graduate and professional students. The problems of global health and of energy and environment are of interest to many students because they represent some of the paramount problems facing the world today. In consonance with the stated goals of the new General Education curriculum, they connect a liberal education with the problems of the real world that students will engage after graduation. Harvard recognizes the importance of such endeavors. Even today, we must continue to gain strength...
...losses that its forecasts indicated were never supposed to happen. Quantitative models like Gorton’s—equally likely to emerge on a dusty blackboard as the frenzied trading floor—have come under fire over the past year, which saw a seismic reshaping of the global financial landscape.Mere months later, academic economists are for the most part presenting a sanguine front to the world. Despite the unprecedented collapse of several Wall Street giants that relied on quantitative forecasting, they say that the fundamentals of quantitative techniques remain intact.But at the same time, there...
...that many of the world's most intractable problems can be alleviated by better communication and understanding. Similar themes are likely to be echoed in his Cairo speech: a call for dialogue and understanding that flows both ways, and which the Bush Administration, with its tin-eared visions of global transformation, sorely lacked. When Rice spoke in Egypt in 2005, she cast the democratic project as an American success story that would soon spread through the Arab world. "The day is coming when the promise of a fully free and democratic world, once thought impossible, will also seem inevitable," Rice...