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...alone has had Gates on its cover three times, first in 1984 and then again in 1995 and 1996, and our library tells me that his name has appeared in 114 issues since he founded Microsoft in 1976. It is not just that Gates has become the world's richest and most famous businessman. In building Microsoft, he has come to symbolize the software and computing industries. Now he intends to do the same thing in the world of digital media, where information, communication and entertainment will converge in ways that will change how we think, work and live...
Let’s face it. The richest university in history can afford to pay its workers more than poverty wages. The proposed raise would cost just a little over $10 million, amounting to no more than 0.3 percent of last year’s endowment return, or 1 percent of the expected payout...
...Global University,” Oct. 14) deserves high praise. His is the first voice out of Harvard to speak out and question why the University with its billions is being miserly in donating to the millions left homeless. Such an uncharitable attitude from the world’s richest academic institution only betrays a callous bias against people far off and thus out of Harvard’s radar...
...replaced by those who are already a rung or two higher.” But Gould-Wartofsky says that there should still be no question about instituting a living wage.“It’s simply ethical—there should not be poverty at the richest university in the world,” he says. “This is part of Harvard’s responsibility.”Mankiw likewise noted in his 2001 Harvard Magazine article that the living-wage campaign raises the issue of what Harvard’s mission to society should...
...you’re reading this, chances are that you (like me) are part of the richest fifth of the world’s people who consume 86 percent of the world’s goods and services. (The poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent.) Our current lifestyle is simply not compatible with African development. To paraphrase Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the problem of poverty is not one of resources, but of their allocation. There needs to be a reallocation and prioritization of the world’s resources?...