Word: modeling
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...model taught in Ec 10 describes how people choose between variously "preferred" goods. You can apply it to anything: the choice a Harvard student makes between eating at Dunkin' Donuts or Au Bon Pain, or the choice a local resident makes between unemployment or a low-wage, dead-end job at either franchise. Ec 10 encourages students to ignore the glaring fact that different members of this society inherit different levels of opportunity and access to privilege, differences which have nothing to do with the "free" market mechanism...
Adherence to the Ec 10 model led Johnson to believe that protesters of Starbucks must be (inappropriately) expressing their "preference" for a different kind of coffee store. If he had bothered to ask the people outside the Starbucks in Central Square last weekend why they were protesting--something economists are usually too busy graphing abstractions to think of doing--he would have learned that not only were they denied an opportunity to express their preference for the affordable coffee shops that used to be there, but that Starbucks's arrival along with other up-scale retail developments, has raised rents...
...sketch of Saint Longinus, also on display, is the only intact surviving model of 22 sketches for the giant marble figure of the centurion who pierced Christ's side, only to then discover His divinity. Longinus is one of four figures planned for the altar niches at the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica. The bronze cast of the of the Countess Matilda (called the "FalkBronze" after its donor) is one of two remainingfigurines that closely resemble the statue of thecountess in the tomb erected in St. Peter'sBasilica under order of Pope Barberini. All theseform part...
Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) and Harvard Program for International Education (HPIE) elected new leaders Monday evening...
Christiana Briggs '99 was elected Secretary-General of HNMUN 1999. She will be in charge of organizing the annual college Model United Nations conference...