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Joseph Stiglitz will read from his new book, The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Properous Decade, and shed some light on the collapse of one of the biggest economic explosions in history. The Nobel Prize winner appears as part of the Harvard Book Store Author Series. Free. 6 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge...
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison reads from her latest the day after it is released to the public as part of the Harvard Book Store Author Series. Love, which tells the story of the wealthy owner of Cosey’s Hotel and Resort and the many women whose lives he defines, is Morrison’s eighth novel. Free. 6 p.m., Fanueil Hall/Great Hall, Government Center, Boston...
...World Bank often respond that full debt relief will hurt developing countries more than it will help them. It will spook lenders, dry up credit, and leave poor countries in worse straits than ever. The rebuttal—offered by economists such as Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz—is that creditors will actually be more inclined to lend to countries that, thanks to debt relief, are able to invest in health and education and situate themselves squarely on the path to future growth. An economically sound nation will be more likely to pay back its debt than...
...public official would think twice today about poking fun at Ebadi, whose struggle for human rights in Iran has earned her the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. In naming Ebadi last week, Norway's Nobel Committee handed a platform to a formidable Iranian voice of conscience, breathed life into the country's dying reform movement and put the Islamic regime on notice. Ebadi has never believed that Islam and reform are doomed to be at odds. "There is absolutely nothing incompatible or contradictory about Islam, democracy and political freedom," she told TIME in Paris, where she learned of the award. "There...
Herschbach, whose voice will make a cameo appearance as a Nobel presenter on the Halloween episode of “The Simpsons,” drew a comparison between Harvard’s current Nobel drought and baseball...