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Take Michael R. Kremer...
...Kremer is one of the top young economists in the nation. He's received a MacArthur "genius" grant. President Clinton selected him as one of the nations first 60 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers...
...expert in development and macroeconomics, Kremer's areas of research include fertility, education, research incentives and economic growth...
Until last year, Kremer was happily ensconced at MIT, where he already had tenure. But when Williamson dangled Harvard's offer, Kremer came...
...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...