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...focused on the nascent field of neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and economics that challenges classical assumptions of economic theory. “Economics is actually an abstract, profoundly wrong model of human behavior,” said Drazen Prelec ’78, a professor of management science at MIT, later redeeming the postulates behind economics by saying that “without those false assumptions, we could not have been making the progress we have been making.” Others voiced similar criticisms of economics. Harvard Economics Professor David I. Laibson ’88 noted...
...courses approved on February 26 are brand new, four of them are currently offered. There will be no changes to Government 20: “Introduction to Comparative Politics,” which will now fulfill the Societies of the World requirement, said the course’s professor, Steven R. Levitsky. Levitsky, whose class is one of the most popular undergraduate courses, said that there was no clear set of criteria to make Gov 20 fit within Gen Ed’s goals. “I am on the Gen Ed committee and I still don?...
Former Medical School professor Leon Eisenberg said that he recognized Hamburg’s academic potential and unique scholarly interests quite early in her Harvard Medical School career...
...light of these reports, Benjamin G. Edelman—an assistant professor at the Business School—said that he sees a new opportunity to emphasize the school’s revised curriculum...
...activism, according to the Harvard’s Hiphop Archive founder and Executive Director, Marcyliena Morgan. “You get [radio stations saying] ‘let’s play these songs about someone’s butt,’” said Morgan, a professor of African and African American Studies. To exchange ideas and promote dialogue surrounding issues of global hip-hop, the Hiphop Archive hosted a conference this week entitled “Hiphop Worldwide: More than a Nation,” which brought together hip-hop artists, scholars, DJs, and authors. Founded...