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...fifth of the world’s people who consume 86 percent of the world’s goods and services. (The poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent.) Our current lifestyle is simply not compatible with African development. To paraphrase Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the problem of poverty is not one of resources, but of their allocation. There needs to be a reallocation and prioritization of the world’s resources—including the resources that you and I control. Every dollar we spend on pet food...
...September 10 issue of the Economist published a 2005 ranking of the top international universities in which Cambridge placed third, behind first-place Harvard. The study took into account factors such as Nobel Prizes and articles published by faculty in prominent journals...
...list of the 100 top public intellectuals, compiled by Foreign Policy (FP) and Prospect magazines, includes 10 Harvard affiliates. The list is made up of intellectuals from 33 countries and boasts three Pulitzer Prize winners and 10 Nobel Prize recipients. An online vote will select the top five intellectuals, who will be announced in November...
...list includes Harvard experts from a wide range of fields, from economists such as University President Lawrence H. Summers and Nobel laureate Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen to humanities scholars such as Carr Center for Human Rights Director Michael Ignatieff and Chair of the African and African American Studies Department Henry Louis “Skip” Gates...
Counter had been at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm when images of Katrina’s devastation began appearing in Sweden’s newspapers...