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Despite the promise that lies in these concessions, there is nothing about these expansions in fringe benefits that guarantees a living wage for all Harvard's workers. Health insurance and on-the-job training are valuable benefits to workers, but they cannot account for the costs of food, clothing and...
If socialism signifies a political and economic system in which the government controls a large part of the economy and redistributes wealth to produce social equality, then I think it is safe to say the likelihood of its making a comeback anytime in the next generation is close to zero...
The job of computing the appropriate level of compensation falls on Harvard's shoulders, since the University has decided, unlike the City of Cambridge, to focus on total compensation instead of wages. Perhaps such a calculation will be more than just a simple figure, one that takes into account the...
To make matters worse, demand for the trade goods that Greenlanders exported to Europe plummeted. Not only was African ivory once again available (the supply had been cut off during the Crusades), but the material was falling out of fashion. And Europeans had their own problems: plague, crops failing in...
In the long term, I am convinced, the quenching of life's exuberance will be more consequential to humanity than all of present-day global warming, ozone depletion and pollution combined. Why? For practical reasons, if nothing else. Humanity's food supply comes from a dangerously narrow sliver of biodiversity...