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...been making the progress we have been making.” Others voiced similar criticisms of economics. Harvard Economics Professor David I. Laibson ’88 noted that economics reduces individuals into simple decision-makers instead of acknowledging that people have several competing mental processes. Brown Neurobiology Professor Peter E. Politser argued that economics ignores the nuances of decision making. “To understand decisions across many contexts, we often have to ask not just what people choose, but how and why,” he said. Throughout the symposium, the professors stressed the discipline?...
...Sara Jane Olson has become a symbol of particular kind of politics, a Rorschach test of personal feelings about the 1960s. My sense is her supporters are still very much behind her, while the people who quickly found her guilty haven't changed their minds either." Peter Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law (Minneapolis Star-Tribune...
...massive new tax. It's a tax on energy, and it will flow directly through to the consumer in the form of a national sales tax on their electric bill," Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, said in questioning White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag at a hearing last week of the Senate Budget Committee. After a few minutes of Gregg's grilling, Orszag conceded "there will be increased prices...
...clearly says: yes, we are back on track, with rock music that thrills over and over again. Why should musicians not be allowed to echo the past? In other fields they are praised when they pay tribute to their roots. Thanks - I'm off to the shop. Peter Terlouw, GOUDA, THE NETHERLANDS...
...Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...