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...students transfer credits for it here at Harvard, but because we don’t see that as being consistent with liberal arts we don’t offer that course to our students,” says David L. Ager, who teaches Sociology 159. Jeffrey A. Miron, the director for undergraduate studies in the Economics Department, was able to give a more practical explanation of the considerations involved. “Why don’t we have the business type of courses in economics? The simple reason is you can’t do everything with finite resources...
...Junior seminars, what? Concentration adviser Jeff Miron confirmed existing rumors of the financial crisis' latest casualty: Econ 980. Though the decision has yet to be formally announced in mid March, we have a few words of advice for sophomore Econ concentrators: don't get your hopes...
...Christina Romer? What was that all about? Too bad that's one secret Miron will never tell...
...statistics on whether higher drinking laws encourage more or less binge drinking and drunk driving are, unfortunately, inconclusive. The debate over whether raising the national drinking age in 1984 caused a decrease in drunk-driving deaths is especially contested. A recent paper by Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron found a significant flaw in traffic fatality statistics that have often been used by opponents of underage drinking to demonstrate such a link, but the answer is still ultimately ambiguous. Given the uncertainty on whether the effects of the current drinking age are positive or negative, we must give the presumption...
...Harvard is still perfectly free to set whatever policy it wants,” Miron said...