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...lengthy productivity slump beginning in the early 1970s that created concern among economists such as Krugman. Low productivity growth explained much of what had gone wrong with the U.S. economy: stagnant wages, high inflation, ground lost to Japan. But what caused it? The most convincing explanation came from Northwestern University's Robert J. Gordon. In the early and mid-20th century, he argued, the U.S. benefited from a spectacular confluence of technological innovation involving electricity, the internal combustion engine, petrochemicals and communications. By the 1970s the economic impact of innovation in these fields had waned, and nothing came along...
...leaders in the fields of computer science and business. Each year, the Siebel Foundation holds an annual conference where past and present scholars discuss solutions to social problems. This year’s conference, “Water: The Next Global Crisis?”, will take place at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management later this month...
...those who wonder why we didn’t stay in Division I-A as Duke, Stanford and Northwestern did, I would ask, what do you think of their football experience this year?,” Orleans said in an interview with the New York Times in 2006. “One could argue that the Ivy League has had the better football experience than those institutions have had for the last 25 years. You might want to ask why they didn’t do what...
...Indeed, at that time, Orleans was right. Duke was an abysmal 0-12 in 2006, Northwestern went 4-8, and Stanford finished 1-11. But with the slow redistribution of talent taking place in college football, those teams appear to be on the rise; Stanford is 3-3 this year and upset No. 1 Southern California last season, Northwestern is 5-0 and ranked No. 22 in the nation, and Duke is 3-2. Vanderbilt, another highly regarded academic institution, is 5-0 and ranked No. 13 in the nation despite playing in what is regarded as the most difficult...
Ayers and his wife, fellow Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn, participated in some of the early bombings; charges against them were dropped in 1974. The couple remained in hiding until 1980, when they turned themselves in to authorities. Dorhn is now a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University while Ayers teaches education at University of Illinois at Chicago. As for Ayers and Obama, the two men lived three blocks away from each other in Chicago and served on a local charity board during the mid-to-late 1990s. When Obama first ran for Illinois state senator...