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...what does being a State Dinner crasher get you? Subpoenaed, apparently. In light of today's congressional hearing looking into the antics of the now infamous Salahis, Flyby talked to Harvard's very own History Professor Emma Rothschild and her husband Professor of Economics and Philosophy Amartya Sen who were two of the lucky few to get an invite to the first State Dinner of the Obama administration...
Surprised more of your favorite professors didn't land in the single digits? Don't worry—there is no need to transfer to Yale—more faculty members including Nicholas Christakis (50), Niall C.D Ferguson (56), Amartya Sen (58), and Samantha Power (80) got a spot on the elite list...
Harvard economics and philosophy Professor Amartya Sen and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris economics professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi discussed their research on alternative ways of measuring the success of a society as part of a panel discussion organized by Center for European Studies visiting scholar Éloi Laurent...
...pioneered the use of technology as agents for reducing poverty, combating disease, and fostering good governance through global engagement. The afternoon’s discussion was guided by Best, who moderated the event, and a group of panelists including two Nobel Prize winning economics professors, Harvard’s Amartya K. Sen and Stanford’s A. Michael Spence. They were joined by Law School Professor Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca, a Founding Director of the National Program of Educational Informatics in Costa Rica. While much of the discussion centered around how technology could be deployed as a tool...
...Sept. 14, a panel chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen released a report on behalf of the French government calling for governments to form new measurements of economic vitality that account for factors other than growth. Announcing the panel's findings, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the current economic crisis provided an opportunity to revise old wisdoms. "A great revolution is waiting for us," he said. "France will fight for all international organizations to modify their statistical methods. The crisis doesn't only make us free to imagine other models. It obliges...