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...both spoke up against the living wage at Monday night’s open forum, held by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP). The forum was held to release the committee’s preliminary data on the state of labor issues at Harvard...
When Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 announced in her Crimson Op-ed on Monday that she was resigning from the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), we could not help but wonder at the timing of her announcement. On the very day that HCECP both released its preliminary findings confirming poverty wages at Harvard and held a public forum at ARCO, Hoxby cast a pall over the committee proceedings. She attacked as unprincipled a number of committee members appointed by former University President Neil L. Rudenstine because, she claimed, they do not respect...
Perhaps the problem here lies in how Hoxby categorizes “opinion.” When she writes that “apart from hearing from administrators and contractors who have presented institutional information, [the HCECP] has heard exclusively from groups lobbying for the living wage,” she would have us believe that University administrators and employers have come before the committee merely to offer objective, statistical accounts of the workplace, as in how many employees are on the payroll...
Moreover, Hoxby seems to have diminished the role she was supposed to play in the HCECP. She accuses the committee’s membership of lacking balance since its very inception: “It contains several people who have an explicit pro-living wage agenda and it contains no one with an opposing agenda.” A curious locution. Who, if not Hoxby, opposes the progressive economics of a living wage at Harvard? As a conservative economist who does not otherwise hide her criticism of unions in her scholarship on school choice and who clearly wants a chorus...
...believe that the HCECP has neither the process nor the principle to fulfill its duties,” Hoxby wrote...