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...award. “I was delighted by the selection because I think Dani Rodrik is about the most interesting mid-career economist around,” Calhoun said. “Like Hirschman, he is an economist who is able to connect the analysis of market phenomena to broader kinds of social and political phenomena.” Rodrik’s most recent book is “One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.” After graduating summa cum laude from the College, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in economics...
...Marco Roth published the first issue of n+1 in the fall of 2004, (though an earlier Kinko’s-printed, hand-stapled prototype was technically the first manifestation of the journal) with the hope of addressing their collective concerns about the problems, happenings, and phenomena plaguing modern society. “We have been talking about these things that bothered us, and then began writing short pieces, mostly for each other.” These individual essays eventually became one of the defining features of the journal and were grouped under the banner, “The Intellectual...
...cocky contempt for authority led him to question received wisdom in ways that well-trained acolytes in the academy never contemplated. And as for his slow verbal development, he thought that it allowed him to observe with wonder the everyday phenomena that others took for granted. Instead of puzzling over mysterious things, he puzzled over the commonplace. "When I ask myself how it happened that I in particular discovered the relativity theory, it seemed to lie in the following circumstance," Einstein once explained. "The ordinary adult never bothers his head about the problems of space and time. These are things...
...Some pointed to troubles in the mortgage business, others to disappointing manufacturing data, yet others to that Greenspan speech. "Our minds are ... capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability," writes derivatives trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his soon-to-be-published book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable...
Some pointed to troubles in the mortgage business, others to disappointing manufacturing data, yet others to that Greenspan speech. "Our minds are ... capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability," writes derivatives trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his soon-to-be-published book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable...