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    Tuition is now a useless concept in higher education

    Tuition is now a useless concept in higher education

    August 19, 2016

    The Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and Education. "Tuition decisions made by elite colleges and universities are actually decisions about whom to subsidize," Allen writes. "The lower the sticker price, the more the well-to-do are being subsidized for an education that costs well above the sticker price."

    Tunnel Vision

    Tunnel Vision

    March 20, 2017

    NPR The Hidden Brain | This week on Hidden Brain, the psychological phenomenon of scarcity and how it can affect our ability to see the big picture and cope with problems in our lives. Features Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan and Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir, authors of Scarcity: Why Having So much Means So Little (Times Books, Henry Holt & Company, 2013). (Transcript + audio)

    See also Harvard Magazine's feature on Sendhil Mullainathan, "The Science of Scarcity: A behavioral economist's fresh perspectives on poverty" (May-June 2015).

    Turning a March into a Movement

    Turning a March into a Movement

    March 9, 2017

    HKS PolicyCast | If the Women’s March on Washington was a spark, what does it now take to fan that spark into a flame? In this week's roundtable discussion: Assistant Professor Leah Wright Rigueur, Women and Public Policy Program Executive Director Victoria Budson, and Adjunct Lecturer Tim McCarthy.

    Two Immigrants Debate Immigration

    Two Immigrants Debate Immigration

    November 26, 2016

    Reason | A spirited exchange between George J. Borjas and Shikha Dalmia on the empirical claims and proposed policy prescriptions in Borjas's new book, We Wanted Workers. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dalmia is a Reason Foundation analyst.

    Edward Glaeser

    Two Takes on the Fate of Future Cities

    April 21, 2017
    The Atlantic—CityLab | A conversation between Ed Glaeser and Richard Florida on what urban policy needs to work towards in an uncertain future. Edward Glaeser is Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard.
    U.S. economy faces a painful comedown from its 'sugar high'

    U.S. economy faces a painful comedown from its 'sugar high'

    December 10, 2017
    Financial Times | By Lawrence H. Summers, Charles Eliot University Professor. Signs of strength are largely unrelated to government policy, Summers argues. "The proposed tax cuts may prolong the sugar high. But they are no substitute for the new economic foundation we so desperately need."
    U.S. Election Coverage: Leah Wright Rigueur

    U.S. Election Coverage: Leah Wright Rigueur

    November 6, 2016

    Al Jazeera TV | Tune in November 6-9 as Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, joins Al Jazeera TV's U.S. elections coverage team as they broadcast live from AJTV studios.

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