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...mainstream economics has strong implications for public policy—in particular an obsession with economic growth, defined as rising GNP. Both rising national incomes and individual incomes are founded on the belief that higher wealth equals a higher quality of life. Yet many other factors contribute to a person??s welfare or the quality of life besides growth, such as health, education, income distribution, meaningful employment, leisure and social cohesion...
Therefore, when I saw Mr. Lu—in China, a person??s first name is his/her family name and the last name is his/her given name—step unceremoniously from the passenger side of an anonymous looking car, accompanied only by Marvin Sweet, a local ceramic artist and lecturer at the Art Institute of Boston, I was unsurprised. As we descended the stairs into the studio, I noted his short stature, his unrefined and incomplete English skills, and his friendly demeanor, but nothing about him even slightly hinted at his remarkable life story and great artistic...
...Although you may think that hearing a person??s voice or reading what they write is enough to get to know who they really are,” Eli warns future cybersurfers, “there are things that simply cannot come across in those media...
...names of Steve Reifenberg, director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, who is “enormously pleased to have him here,” and Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, who told The Crimson that “the quality of a person??s scholarly work, not his or her politics, should determine whether he or she teaches at Harvard...
...ever be offered a Harvard position. No professor here would ever say it was “admirable” that a visiting academic had served under Augusto Pinochet in Chile, or Francisco Franco in Spain. No one would blather on about “the quality of a person??s scholarly work, not his or her politics,” if the politics in question were fascist...