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...Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition recently awarded it's annual Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery written this year to The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas written by Queens University of Ontario Professor David Eltis. The book was chosen for its ground-breaking scholarship showing that it was the strength and prosperity of the African nation-states, rather any weakness or poverty, that shaped the Atlantic slave trade and forced the Europeans to accommodate themselves to African customs and economics. The book also seeks to understand why Europe...
...TIME.com spoke with Professor Eltis, a leading scholar on the African Diaspora, about his book...
...completely outlined his Social Security plan, he has indicated that he would support taking a portion of money out of the current system and placing it in private accounts. This money could then be invested in stocks and bonds, as has been advocated by Bush advisor and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61. Feldstein has argued that private investments will create a "All-Gain, No-Pain" fix for Social Security, as the swirling stock markets buoy the program to higher and higher returns. Yet pleasant fantasies may not serve as the basis for future policy, and there...
...high returns over the last 50 years may have been unprecedented, but so was the recent rise in stock prices, which seems to indicate that investors have arbitraged away any misperceptions. Economists widely dispersed across the political spectrum, from MIT's liberal Paul Krugman to Harvard's conservative Waggoner Professor of Economics Robert J. Barro, have described past gains as a result of historical mispricings and written that there is little reason to expect stock gains to continue to outpace those of Treasury bonds. Indeed, some of Bush's closest advisors have argued that the stock market is overvalued...
Alex Molnar is a professor at the University of Wisconsin--Madison School of Education and is director of CACE. Jennifer Morales is assistant director of CACE...