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Marglin said the course—originally proposed as an alternative to the first semester of Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics” (Ec 10)—is also intended to introduce basic economic principles...
After traditional schooling in economics at Harvard in the 1960s, he said, an experience teaching economics in India compelled him to question the basic capitalist principles he had learned...
...prime example is LifeMatrix, a psychographic-marketing tool launched in December 2002 by market-research giants RoperASW and Mediamark Research (both owned by NOP World). LifeMatrix considers hundreds of personal variables, including religious affiliation and political leaning, and uses them to sort people into 10 basic psychographic categories with jargon-rich titles like "priority parents" and "tribe wired." To each category is attached a battery of personality traits and purchasing preferences. Are you a working mom trying to balance job, family and cultural activities? LifeMatrix assigns you to the category "Renaissance women." But that's not all. LifeMatrix makes some...
...Clarks' middle-class angst is shared by a generation of Americans who expected prosperity, or at least financial security, to be almost assured for the two-paycheck family. That assumption is increasingly misguided, according to the two-income trap: why middle-class mothers & fathers are going broke (basic books; 255 pages). Authors Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor and bankruptcy expert, and Amelia Warren Tyagi, a business consultant and Warren's daughter, offer a startling account of the elusiveness of the American Dream. They conclude that modern families are no better off than the Ozzie-and-Harriet household...
...face of characterizations like these, we should remind ourselves that neither gay marriage nor homosexuality hurts anyone. They are independent, private choices that pose a threat only to a set of rigid values which disregard basic freedoms and principles, including equality, tolerance and privacy...