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...said that Melitz’s work has “paid direct attention to the way trade works asymmetrically” and has helped “connect trade theory with applied macroeconomics.” Campbell called Melitz an integral force in the “paradigm shift of the 21st century” in economics. This semester, Melitz is teaching Economics 1535: “International Trade and Investment,” a course he has taught before as an associate professor at Harvard. Shankar G. Ramaswamy ’11, who is taking the class this...
...economic downturn has taken a toll on student workers across campus, limiting employment opportunities and forcing students to take shorter shifts at workplaces ranging from libraries to the Office of Career Services. Evelyn R. Wenger ’11, a student receptionist who has worked at OCS for the past two years, said that the maximum amount of hours each student can work per week has been reduced this year. Wenger worked between seven and ten hours each week last year, but she can no longer put in the same number of hours due to policy changes and new hour...
Staff feelings are still raw over the death last summer of Charles Loftly, 60, after he was attacked during an overnight shift at Tryon Residential Center in Johnstown, N.Y., where he was the sole person watching over 10 kids. According to his union, Loftly responded to a resident's feigned vomiting, only to find himself assaulted by three others who smashed his head with a piece of wood they had ripped from a desk. A colleague in an adjoining wing helped foil the escape attempt, but Lofty suffered headaches for weeks. While out on leave, he had a stroke...
...women like the French first lady are still forced into a position of defiance rather than productive reflection. Multi-faceted artistic representations of the female mind—in film, on TV, in books—may be just what’s needed to help spur a conceptual shift in the way we think about how women think. After all, the issue is not just about how to make an interesting movie. It’s about how a society represents half of its population to itself...
Hatoyama will have to get the budget under control and help shift Japan away from the export-oriented economic growth that served it so well in its golden age of the 1970s and '80s. To accomplish that, Japan needs to boost domestic consumption. But its people will spend only if they feel economically secure, which is why thoroughgoing reform of the pension, health-care and unemployment systems is vital. Japan's current social-security programs hark back to an era of guaranteed jobs for life, which places unsustainable financial burdens on companies and individuals...