For the last four years in a row, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Dartmouth as number one in the country for "Best Undergraduate Teaching." The College must certainly be doing something right.
Over the past week, remarks that Mitt Romney made last May at a fundraiser in which he appeared to write off 47 percent of the electorate were met with a mixture of scorn and bewilderment.
Last month, the national unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent. Given that the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, the economy must have improved significantly over the last three years, right? Actually, no.
Last Wednesday, the Tuck School of Business hosted a panel discussion titled "Obama and Coolidge: What the 44th President Might Learn From the 30th." The discussion included interesting talks by both economics professor Douglas Irwin and former Vermont Gov.
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Correction appended About a week ago, I overheard a rather distressing conversation between several students.
In our day and age, empirical evidence from scientific study is held in high regard. Perhaps as a result, supposedly "scientific" data are often used in political debates to show how one political position is "better" than another.
On Tuesday afternoon, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a lecture on the global economy in which he argued that the world is becoming ever more interconnected and that many problems will need to be solved through greater international cooperation ("Brown discusses global economy," May 16). While Brown's argument is certainly true with regards to some pressing issues, further centralization of political power isn't a wise idea in general. The first part of Brown's argument is most certainly correct: "We are all part of an interdependent economy.
It is no secret that, three years since the official end of the recession, many of the world's economies are still in terrible shape.
Many people seem to assume that placing intelligent people in positions of power and then granting these individuals broad discretionary powers to do as they see fit is the best way to go about solving the world's many problems.