Word: kremer
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...around this time that, as the economist Michael Kremer has noted, Mother Nature happened to conduct an experiment that underscored the value of large social brains. Melting polar ice caps severed Tasmania from Australia and the New World from the Old World. Thereafter, just as you would expect, the larger the landmass and hence the population, the faster subsistence technology progressed. The people of the vast Old World invented farming before the people of the smaller (and, at first, thinly populated) New World. And the Aborigines of yet smaller Australia never farmed. As for tiny Tasmania, modern explorers, on contacting...
Examining the small font under the very last photograph in the folder, I noticed the name "Cipriani Kremer Design," an elite Boston advertising firm. Undoubtedly a fancy copy-writing firm supplied the text, which is predictably self-aggrandizing. From my experience working in the Internet design industry, I can estimate that the professional design, photography and copy-writing services for a project of this size would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Add the time library administrators spent on the project, and the costs of printing, delivering, and stuffing each of the 6,000-plus folders with 17 separate pamphlets...
...suspension prohibits a fraternity from rushing first-years, IFC Judicial Committee Chair Patrick Kremer said...
...Professor Kremer fills a gap in devel- opment economics while Professor Rogoff fills agap in international economics, two areas that arevery popular with the undergraduates," saidWilliamson, who is also Bell professor ofeconomics...
Rogoff and Kremer will teach both graduate andundergraduate economics courses. Both professorswill start teaching at Harvard in the fall