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...could change only one thing about our agricultural system, what would...
Bankers are born no greedier than the rest of us. That assertion alone makes Joseph Stiglitz's comprehensive postmortem stand out from the reams of books published so far about the financial crisis. Instead of attacking individuals, the Nobel Prize--winning economist faults the system that delivered us to the brink, citing the effects of everything from deregulation to the misaligned incentives of people selling financial products. But Stiglitz has his sights on a larger problem as well. For too long, he argues, economists and policymakers have relied on the erroneous assumptions that markets are fundamentally efficient and material wealth...
...coming and in addition, allow students to see which of their friends are coming. Each student’s interface should also be specialized, so students are able to choose their preferences—what topics they like and when they are generally available. Similar to Google News, the system should offer students event suggestions based on these preferences. If the University and UC are in need of inspiration, Stanford’s online events calendar has a very intuitive interface and would be a great model for Harvard to follow...
...system in which we live—which we can call capitalism—this is a system in which the Haitian catastrophe is not just normal but inevitable, that in fact a large part of the world is immiserated and stripped of resources to sustain certain lives of privilege,” said Diaz, a Dominican writer catapulted to fame by his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...
...When you consider we transport 1.2 million people a day on our system, the number of crimes that occur on our system is incredibly low,” said Joseph O’Connor, deputy chief of the MBTA Transit Police...