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...Melitz taught the intermediate level Economics 1010a: Microeconomic Theory, as well as Economics 1535: International Trade and Investment. He said he plans to teach 1535 next year and 1010a in coming years. The addition of Melitz will help maintain current course offerings in a department with one of the highest student-to-faculty ratios in the Facultyof Arts and Sciences. In the past year, the department has faced a shortage of faculty, leading to the cancellation of smaller courses like Junior Seminars. Department Chair James H. Stock said that with the addition of Melitz, the department’s size...
...principled leadership, but only the tea-party fringe seems to be following. "Nobody likes Dr. Doom," Sanford says with a smile. Leading a state with the nation's third highest unemployment rate, he understands the Keynesian idea that only government spending can jump-start a recessionary economy: "I get it. I'm supposed to be proactive." But if spend-and-borrow is the only alternative to a depression, he says, "then we're toast...
...Eating, Sleeping and Leisure: "Americans spend around an hour and a quarter eating every day, slightly more than only Canadians and Mexicans but less than half the eating time spent by the French. Despite this limited time spent eating, their obesity rates are the highest in the OECD." (That's ten times the rate in South Korea, mind you). "Spain reports the highest proportion of leisure time spent doing regular physical activities. Even there, exercise accounts for a mere 13% of leisure time. ... Italian men have nearly 80 minutes a day of leisure more than women. Much of the additional...
...said they got drunk regularly in the United Kingdom, more than anywhere else. Boys of the same age were only just behind (32%), second only to Denmark (34%). With around one in ten male teenagers not in education, employment or training, the United Kingdom has the second highest rate in the OECD, after Italy. The rate for females between 15 and 19 is lower only than in Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Spain...
...countries and only declined in Portugal, Hungary, the United States, Canada and Japan. The rise in life satisfaction in Turkey is particularly striking. ... While Mexico shows the lowest income among OECD countries, at $10,000 per capita, Mexicans report being almost as satsified with life as OECD's highest income country Luxembourg, at $55,000. ... Korea now has the highest suicide rate among OECD countries (around 22 deaths per 100,000 individuals). Ireland shows a marked regular increase of suicide rates with a peak in 2000, followed by a small but continuous decline...