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June 25, 2019
Cameron LaPoint Awarded the C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship
New York, NY – Cameron La Point, a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Columbia University Economics Department, has been awarded the C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship. The Lincoln Institute’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program supports Ph.D. students researching land and tax policy issues. This program honors Professor Harriss (1912–2009) who taught economics at […]
June 6, 2019
Stiglitz – “The Climate Crisis Is Our Third World War: It Needs A Bold response”
Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with the climate crisis and highlight the scale and scope of what is required to combat it. They are right. They use the term “New Deal” to evoke the massive response by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the United States government to the […]
June 4, 2019
Sachs – (Video) “Venezuelan Ex-Oil Workers Go On Hunger Strike As Desperation Increases”
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, who is a professor of sustainable development at Columbia University, said the principal causes of the economic free-fall in Venezuela were both economic mismanagement and U.S. sanctions. … “The economy was already gravely imbalanced before August 2017, but the sanctions threw Venezuela to hyperinflation and catastrophe,” he said.
