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...economic adviser Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, Assistant Treasury Secretary nominee Alan Krueger of Princeton and several other key aides. Sunstein has been nominated to be Obama's regulatory czar. Even National Economic Council director Larry Summers has done work on behavioral finance. And Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan is organizing an outside network of behavioral experts to provide the Administration with policy ideas...
...take public transit if there's none in our neighborhood. The bully pulpit has limits - Michelle Obama has literally urged us to eat our broccoli, but she can't make it taste like fudge. "I like nudges, but sometimes we need to do more," says Harvard's Mullainathan. Sometimes we need a shove. The research proves change can come about when it's easy and popular, but making it lucrative - or even mandatory - can make sure it happens...
...highest student-to-faculty ratios—introduced the 16-person courses three years ago as a result of a College-wide push to increase student interaction with faculty members. “The student-teacher ratio is well out of whack,” said Sendhil Mullainathan, an economics professor who also taught a seminar this fall. Recent departures have worsened the situation. In the past few weeks, the department has lost several faculty members to the Obama administration. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was slated to co-teach a junior seminar this spring, left to head...
...Jacobsen does leave Harvard for MIT, it would be latest chapter in a long history of faculty moves between the two schools. In recent years, Harvard has attracted many top scholars from MIT, including behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan in 2004 and psychologists Elizabeth Spelke ’71 in 2001 and Steven Pinker in 2003. Harvard’s previous president, Lawrence H. Summers, came to Harvard as an economics professor from MIT, becoming at age 28 one of the youngest tenured professors in the University’s history...
...sets and did not provoke worry. N.B.: If you are a non-Economics concentrator and want a version of Psych and Ec with less Ec and more paper writing, check out Sendhil Mullainathan’s Ec1035, “Policy Applications of Psychology and Economics.” Mullainathan is also very prominent in the world of behavioral economics and has received sky-high CUE ratings for his teaching abilities. Course veterans have called the course an “easy...