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Harvard Professor Amitabh Chandra Discusses Medical Innovation, Inequality at Annual Pierson Lecture

On Thursday, March 24 in the Chang Hou Lecture Hall, Harvard University Professor of Public Policy and Business Administration Amitabh Chandra delivered Swarthmore’s annual Pierson Lecture. In the talk, Chandra discussed medical innovation, economic incentives, and pricing in the biopharmaceutical industry, emphasizing

March 30, 2023

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Dr. Loretta Mester Highlights Racial Disparities in Economics in Department Guest Lecture

Dr. Loretta Mester’s views, as represented in this article and her lecture, are her own and not reflective of her affiliated institutions. Dr. Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania,

April 24, 2021

Highlights·Op-Ed·Opinion

The Invisible Hand Doesn’t Work: Underrepresentation in Economics is a Market Failure

Nationwide, the field of economics, being overwhelmingly comprised of middle class, caucasian men to the extreme exclusion of other class, racial, and gender groups, has a diversity problem. This lends to overwhelmingly homogenous perspectives in economics, which really impedes the field from

March 5, 2020

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Wilcox Lecturer Shares Merits of Social Democracy

Last Tuesday, students and faculty filled Sci 101 for the Department of Economics’s Wilcox lecture. The Wilcox lecture series is named for Professor Clair Wilcox, who taught at Swarthmore in the 1920s through 60s, was the Economics department chair for many decades,

October 31, 2019

Columnists·Features·Last Century Today

The Book and Key Society: March 14th, 1918

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. This article

March 20, 2018

Columnists·Features·Last Century Today

The Book and Key Society: February 28, 2018

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. The Temple.

February 28, 2018

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Harvard Professor Amitabh Chandra Discusses Medical Innovation, Inequality at Annual Pierson Lecture

Dr. Loretta Mester Highlights Racial Disparities in Economics in Department Guest Lecture

Wilcox Lecturer Shares Merits of Social Democracy

The Book and Key Society: March 14th, 1918

The Book and Key Society: February 28, 2018

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